Washington DC
What a great trip!
We spent most of a week in DC on account of attending our friend and former-roomate Greg's, wedding there. In very brief:
Flew in Thursday night and met up with "everyone" for dinner and drinks. We were fortunate enough to have Greg and his very-soon-to-be-wife Amy meet us at the airport and drive us into town and show us around a very little bit. We were unfortunate enough to have United route one bag to Chicago, but that was no real loss as it only had Steve's heavy coat and some other junk that turned out to not be needed as we were fortunate enough to have great weather. We were yet more fortunate to have one of our favorite people, Keith (best man at our wedding) join us for dinner/drinks as well. He lives in NC, but gets up to DC for business pretty regularly.
After eating and drinking.... plenty.... we made it back to our hotel, the Hotel Sofitel Lafayette Square, only to be informed that they had overbooked. Ugh. You can imagine our faces at nearly 3am after a full day of travel, when we heard that there was no room at the inn. "But," we were assured by a very apologetic manager who was probably really hoping we were a no-show, "we have arranged accomodations nearby at a very nice hotel."
That very nice hotel turned out to be a *very* nice hotel, the Hay Adams. Not only were we now staying in a much nicer hotel, but the Sofitel also informed us that the night would be complimentary. Have to hand it to the folks at Sofitel- even though they screwed up on the reservation, they sure did it will aplomb. We slept very well and woke up refreshed and ready to take on all that Washington DC had to offer. Ok, that may be an exaggeration. AFTER we had a cup of coffee, then AFTER we moved back to the Sofitel to discover that we had another upgrade at no extra charge to "make up for the inconvenience" of staying at the luxurious 5 star Hay Adams, and AFTER we ate a delicious big greasy deli sandwich (corner of 15th and I, wonderful deli)... THEN we were ready to tackle DC.
And just as soon as the pics are presentable, this narrative will continue!
We spent most of a week in DC on account of attending our friend and former-roomate Greg's, wedding there. In very brief:
Flew in Thursday night and met up with "everyone" for dinner and drinks. We were fortunate enough to have Greg and his very-soon-to-be-wife Amy meet us at the airport and drive us into town and show us around a very little bit. We were unfortunate enough to have United route one bag to Chicago, but that was no real loss as it only had Steve's heavy coat and some other junk that turned out to not be needed as we were fortunate enough to have great weather. We were yet more fortunate to have one of our favorite people, Keith (best man at our wedding) join us for dinner/drinks as well. He lives in NC, but gets up to DC for business pretty regularly.
After eating and drinking.... plenty.... we made it back to our hotel, the Hotel Sofitel Lafayette Square, only to be informed that they had overbooked. Ugh. You can imagine our faces at nearly 3am after a full day of travel, when we heard that there was no room at the inn. "But," we were assured by a very apologetic manager who was probably really hoping we were a no-show, "we have arranged accomodations nearby at a very nice hotel."
That very nice hotel turned out to be a *very* nice hotel, the Hay Adams. Not only were we now staying in a much nicer hotel, but the Sofitel also informed us that the night would be complimentary. Have to hand it to the folks at Sofitel- even though they screwed up on the reservation, they sure did it will aplomb. We slept very well and woke up refreshed and ready to take on all that Washington DC had to offer. Ok, that may be an exaggeration. AFTER we had a cup of coffee, then AFTER we moved back to the Sofitel to discover that we had another upgrade at no extra charge to "make up for the inconvenience" of staying at the luxurious 5 star Hay Adams, and AFTER we ate a delicious big greasy deli sandwich (corner of 15th and I, wonderful deli)... THEN we were ready to tackle DC.
And just as soon as the pics are presentable, this narrative will continue!
Labels: travel, vacation, wedding
# posted by Steve Broyles @ 10/31/2006 05:20:00 PM 
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