5-11-10 to 5-14-10 Tim's in town

Tim came to visit us after his conference in Baltimore was over. Unfortunately, Ann could not come also. Their trip to see us got snowed out around Christmas time by Snowmaggedon. Tim arrived Tuesday afternoon at the train station, a bit green around the gills. Sue took him home and mothered him and he felt much better the next day. It was not clear if it was food poisoning or alcohol poisoning or what. Wednesday, he and Sue toured the monuments in the morning and then met me for lunch. We went to Ford's Theater for the tour and then visited the Old Post Office Tower. We all rode the Metro back to Alexandria.

On Thursday, Tim and Sue tried to tour Alexandria, but several places were closed. They went to see the Library of Congress (Sue used her card to get onto the Reading Room floor), had a Capitol tour in the afternoon and then went to the Supreme Court.

On Friday, I took off and we went to Mt. Vernon for the day. It was warm, trending to hot. The crowds are picking up - we had to wait about 30 minutes to get into the house. We met a freindly (hungry?) bull and Tim took this neat picture of him.

Saturday, Tim's flight left Baltimore at 7:45, so we were on the road early to get him there. After we left him off and said our goodbyes, we took off for our next adventure - the Wild Ponies of Assateague.