allisophie
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- Jul 27, 2004
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First thanks to everyone who let us know about this campground....
It was definately worth the stay,especially after the metro ride and bus ride back to the Pop up's ac
..... the smaller pool for the little kids was awesome, DD8 met plenty of new friends 
it was neat to hear them talk about what they saw that day.. her big deal of the stay was seeing"President Lincoln in that HUGE chair!" Since my bestfriends Pop up is HUGE, we were in the 100 loop by the beltway.. (which some campers complained of the noise at night, didn't bother us we are used to city noises)
I have to hand it to all of you pop up families.. WHEW!! It's alot of steps closing and opening sliding,storing in certain places... this one had 2 slide outs and king sized beds .. question.. what doyou keep your cothes in as there was no drawers ect.. ( i had ours in a rubbermaid container in plastic bags)
we are really thankful that we did not have to close it up in the pouring rain that we had earlier in the day....needless to say I missed our TT.. DH loved the gas mileage, he ran midgrade in the hemi....
ummm it was hard not having our regular sized fridge,and the bathroom... lol I Know spoiled... The bathrooms were really kept up, (we left Sat am so not sure how the fared over the weekend) and the showers were really clean.. DD 17 kept comparing it to the Fort... especially since it seemed as if there was no AC in the bath houses
The free internet was limited to 2hours before you had to sign back in.. DD17 and Dad did most of the internet.. it was nice to have free net.. disney should offer it free but that's not going to happen so I need to stop wishing
the first few days we did the bus and metro.. the hardest part was waiting for the bus to pick us up on the way home.. we waited almost 40 minutes, when it's hot and humid.. folks get cranky..
the bus ride took us another hour and half with all the stops.. this is when the pool became our haven... nice n cool.. and the cafe there offered hot dogs n such..
we had bus tokens left over and offered them to a family who was checking in.. DH had decided to drive to the Uof Maryland parking lot pay the $ and save the hassel of the bus... grandma is a real trooper and did well on the bus but she was the deciding factor for the parking lot the next day.. with temps in the high 90's and the humidity even worse.. we gladly drove to the lot and paid.. The friendly folks at the office discouraged just about everyone from driving to the parking lot or into DC.. which we did both
We drove in Thrs nite to see the monuments in lights.. could not get on a bus tour as they were booked this is what DH gets for deciding last minute trips.... Needless to say he could not get into the National Archives, nor the Mint,or the monument.. again dh is 
that even the no tickets lines.. were HOURS long.....he found out that they let the bus tours go first... 400 people a time in the Archives... it took alot for me to stop saying.. "Really ?you need tickets? " Yes I tried to get them ahead of time but had no luck.. this I too informed him of, and he figured we would just "wing it anyway'...umm next time we will have tickets or go on the bus tours....
As for food our best meal in DC was at the American Indian museum we shared berry glazed salmon,buffalo, sliced cook carrots,sweetpoatoes,purple poatoes.. (yes they really are purple) and wild grain rice, the girls also had a chowder and roasted chicken (white meat and legs) we chose bottled teas /juices over the fountain drinks ,for the 5 of us it was 60$ not too bad.. Dd swore the salmon was just as good as the salmon at the food n wine fest in Canada..
Dd 17 and I visited The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum( I had been to several concentration camps in Germany and Poland.. lived in Germany as a teenager,dad was stationed there for 4 yrs) we talked it over before we decided to "wing it" and head on over... we had to wait an hour for our ticket time, so we visited the gift shop. I purchased a book for my Cousin who teaches HS kids History,the author was there and signed it for me.. It's very humbling to talk to a survivor... needless to say tears were flowing thru out the 2 1/2 hour visit...... one of the exhibts we did not see.. Remeber the Children "Daniels story" we by passed, the line was long and we knew we had to meet Hubby around 4 DD8 did not go, she and dad wandered down to see Mr Lincoln in his "chair" and to have hot dogs and ice cream from the carts
For 4 days we crammed alot in, even my mom commented on how much walking we did.. Whew.. not like "disney" lol.. poor dad.. the entire trip everyone kept saying "at Disney" or at the Fort"
October is just around the corner and we can not wait..
any one have any ? feel free to pm if youd like..
thanks again
It was definately worth the stay,especially after the metro ride and bus ride back to the Pop up's ac
..... the smaller pool for the little kids was awesome, DD8 met plenty of new friends it was neat to hear them talk about what they saw that day.. her big deal of the stay was seeing"President Lincoln in that HUGE chair!" Since my bestfriends Pop up is HUGE, we were in the 100 loop by the beltway.. (which some campers complained of the noise at night, didn't bother us we are used to city noises) I have to hand it to all of you pop up families.. WHEW!! It's alot of steps closing and opening sliding,storing in certain places... this one had 2 slide outs and king sized beds .. question.. what doyou keep your cothes in as there was no drawers ect.. ( i had ours in a rubbermaid container in plastic bags)
we are really thankful that we did not have to close it up in the pouring rain that we had earlier in the day....needless to say I missed our TT.. DH loved the gas mileage, he ran midgrade in the hemi....
ummm it was hard not having our regular sized fridge,and the bathroom... lol I Know spoiled... The bathrooms were really kept up, (we left Sat am so not sure how the fared over the weekend) and the showers were really clean.. DD 17 kept comparing it to the Fort... especially since it seemed as if there was no AC in the bath houses
The free internet was limited to 2hours before you had to sign back in.. DD17 and Dad did most of the internet.. it was nice to have free net.. disney should offer it free but that's not going to happen so I need to stop wishing
the first few days we did the bus and metro.. the hardest part was waiting for the bus to pick us up on the way home.. we waited almost 40 minutes, when it's hot and humid.. folks get cranky..
the bus ride took us another hour and half with all the stops.. this is when the pool became our haven... nice n cool.. and the cafe there offered hot dogs n such.. we had bus tokens left over and offered them to a family who was checking in.. DH had decided to drive to the Uof Maryland parking lot pay the $ and save the hassel of the bus... grandma is a real trooper and did well on the bus but she was the deciding factor for the parking lot the next day.. with temps in the high 90's and the humidity even worse.. we gladly drove to the lot and paid.. The friendly folks at the office discouraged just about everyone from driving to the parking lot or into DC.. which we did both
We drove in Thrs nite to see the monuments in lights.. could not get on a bus tour as they were booked
this is what DH gets for deciding last minute trips.... Needless to say he could not get into the National Archives, nor the Mint,or the monument.. again dh is that even the no tickets lines.. were HOURS long.....he found out that they let the bus tours go first... 400 people a time in the Archives... it took alot for me to stop saying.. "Really ?you need tickets? " Yes I tried to get them ahead of time but had no luck.. this I too informed him of, and he figured we would just "wing it anyway'...umm next time we will have tickets or go on the bus tours.... As for food our best meal in DC was at the American Indian museum we shared berry glazed salmon,buffalo, sliced cook carrots,sweetpoatoes,purple poatoes.. (yes they really are purple) and wild grain rice, the girls also had a chowder and roasted chicken (white meat and legs) we chose bottled teas /juices over the fountain drinks ,for the 5 of us it was 60$ not too bad.. Dd swore the salmon was just as good as the salmon at the food n wine fest in Canada..
Dd 17 and I visited The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum( I had been to several concentration camps in Germany and Poland.. lived in Germany as a teenager,dad was stationed there for 4 yrs) we talked it over before we decided to "wing it" and head on over... we had to wait an hour for our ticket time, so we visited the gift shop. I purchased a book for my Cousin who teaches HS kids History,the author was there and signed it for me.. It's very humbling to talk to a survivor... needless to say tears were flowing thru out the 2 1/2 hour visit...... one of the exhibts we did not see.. Remeber the Children "Daniels story" we by passed, the line was long and we knew we had to meet Hubby around 4 DD8 did not go, she and dad wandered down to see Mr Lincoln in his "chair" and to have hot dogs and ice cream from the carts
For 4 days we crammed alot in, even my mom commented on how much walking we did.. Whew.. not like "disney" lol.. poor dad.. the entire trip everyone kept saying "at Disney" or at the Fort"
October is just around the corner and we can not wait..
any one have any ? feel free to pm if youd like..
thanks again
at me.. telling me I was spoiled with our Travel Trailer and aww .. we had to "rough it" 
(the draw backs of having some one else fix his stuff) and we were stuck in a rest area south of Macon Ga.. uhuh. in major construction zone... DH spent the nite in the TT while the rest of us went down and stayed in a cabin.. (talk about spoilied kids on that trip 
