Also stopped by the portrait gallery in Chinatown (the joke of a Chinatown)..
Smithsonian Castle
White House + Corcoran Gallery (not free). The gallery has an excellent very complete exhibit on Modernism if you're interested in that type of stuff. Modernists invented stacking bowls, were obsessed with the machine and industrialization as utopia, and basically created what we would call conformity today. Except back then it was all nouveau!
Here's a picture of the Eisenhower house from when I visited last fall. If you ever hear the phrase "summer in DC," run the other way.
Of course what's a trip with C and yellowcat without visits to overpriced restaurants? We visited Zaytinya (mediterranean tapas) and Georgia Brown's (upscale southern). Tonight we're going to Raku, which is kind of a running joke around here at work that only I find funny. You see, every time someone has a friend or family member in town, they all go to Raku. I never thought it was that great, good but not authentic Asian. But it's where people take out of town visitors. So, in following the grand tradition, I'll be visiting Raku tonight.
Smithsonian Castle
White House + Corcoran Gallery (not free). The gallery has an excellent very complete exhibit on Modernism if you're interested in that type of stuff. Modernists invented stacking bowls, were obsessed with the machine and industrialization as utopia, and basically created what we would call conformity today. Except back then it was all nouveau! 
Here's a picture of the Eisenhower house from when I visited last fall. If you ever hear the phrase "summer in DC," run the other way. 
Of course what's a trip with C and yellowcat without visits to overpriced restaurants? We visited Zaytinya (mediterranean tapas) and Georgia Brown's (upscale southern). Tonight we're going to Raku, which is kind of a running joke around here at work that only I find funny. You see, every time someone has a friend or family member in town, they all go to Raku. I never thought it was that great, good but not authentic Asian. But it's where people take out of town visitors. So, in following the grand tradition, I'll be visiting Raku tonight.
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