Time to Travel!

it was an early landing in DC but that also means an early departure time from the house, it is starting to seem normal as we hit our fourth time zone in less than a week.  A section of the yellow line metro was down so we hit a bus from the airport and then back on to the metro line further down.  The girls loved the metro much more than the bus, but still aren't being swept up by big city life.  It is immediately apparent that the speed and pace of this trip will be much faster than the last week.  Our hotel is on the edge of Chinatown and with our bellies eating themselves we headed into the neighborhood for lunch.  From menus to storefronts we had difficulty finding something to accommodate us all, even with google searches and ratings reviews.  We did stumble on to a burger shop and with our stomachs filled and bladders emptied (after we used the code to the lock found on the bottom of our receipt) we headed into the city to explore.  First stop, International Spy Museum.  Artifacts from our own Civil War relating to spying right up to the current era of tricks of the trade.  There are certainly levels to our reality and much of our surroundings that go unnoticed.  We hung out on a hot marble bench outside the National Portrait Gallery and located Ford's Theater for our next tour.  It apparently was closed down after the assassination, gutted and retrofitted into Federal office buildings.  It has since been reconstructed and is an active theater with multiple shows a year.  We shopped at the street vendors on our way to dinner....Ella's Wood Fired Pizza's.  It was on the list for name recognition alone and it was an excellent meal.  Although we were eating early in the evening having had a long day and I would need a second meal from the hotel bar later and appetizers for everyone else.  Some hotel swimming and then it was off to bed in preparation for the next day.