{"id":1252,"date":"2008-06-10T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T21:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2009-01-22T12:54:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T17:54:43","slug":"weekend-in-dc-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2008\/06\/weekend-in-dc-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend in DC – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent this past weekend in Washington DC. I went down with my friend Stephen<\/a> on Thursday night. Friday was a work event for him, and I was able to work from the hotel (not something I can do often, but I love how flexible my job can be!). <\/p>\n

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Friday night was a company dinner at Sequoia<\/a> that I was able to go along to, a very nice place! (If a bit awkward at some moments, “No, I’m not his wife…”)<\/p>\n

Saturday was Smithsonian Museums day. Our destinations were the Museum of Natural History<\/a> and the Air and Space Museum<\/a>. But first was an early lunch at Potbelly<\/a> where I enjoyed a Wreck sandwich with “the works” – not typically my style, but quite a delight. Then we hopped on the Metro from the hotel and got off at the Smithsonian station, where we were welcomed by the sun beating down on the Nat’l Mall during the heatwave that lasted all weekend!<\/p>\n

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\nNat’l Monument! They’re setting up for the Smithsonian Folklife Event<\/a> so there were all sorts of tents and things around.<\/center><\/p>\n

First stop was the Natural History Museum to see dinosaurs!<\/p>\n

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\nRawr.<\/center><\/p>\n

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Unfortunately EVERYONE wants to see the dinosaurs, so the place was packed and after spending less than an hour wandering around the exhibit we made our exit to check out other parts of the museum.<\/p>\n

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\nPenguin Skeleton<\/center><\/p>\n

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\nThylacine (background) – recreation of the critter that got presumably extincted by the Dingo (foreground)<\/center><\/p>\n

Then it was on to Air and Space.<\/p>\n

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We ended up going to see 3D Sun in the IMAX, but not seeing much else there at the Air and Space Museum simply because we were hitting the end of the day. Dinner was at Penang<\/a> where I enjoyed the spectacular Sarang Burung: Formed fried taro filled w. scallops, squid, shrimp, corn, carrots and black mushrooms topped with cashews on a bed of crispy rice noodles.<\/i> Yum!<\/p>\n

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\n..partially eaten, it was so good I had to snap a picture<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent this past weekend in Washington DC. I went down with my friend Stephen on Thursday night. Friday was a work event for him, and I was able to work from the hotel (not something I can do often, but I love how flexible my job can be!). Friday night was a company dinner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}