Walking the City

So Tom and I will often head out for a walk after he gets home from work.  Sometimes its a relatively short one (less than an hour) then we'll come home and have dinner.  Because of our proximity to the waterfront and wharf, we'll often head that way then go to the Jefferson Memorial.

Other times we'll head to the Mall where there's ALWAYS something going on.  Live music, festivals, protests, food trucks, tourists and great people watching.  It's only a 15 minute walk from our apartment so we might go there and make a loop or two.

We might even sneak through the courtyard of the luxury Mandarin Oriental Hotel as we work our way back home.

However, one friday evening we left home, again, with no destination in mind and just kept going.  The problem is, that there is so much to see and we always think, "let's just go a little further" in our exploration and we end up wandering for quite a while.

We found our way to Barracks Row which is where the Marine Barracks are and where the church we go to is located.  It's an old theatre.  It's also a street lined with great restaurants so we decided to split a Thai dinner in a little place we'd never been to.

National Community Church

This lot backs up against Barracks Row and is where a new LDS Church is going to be built.

These make me wish I had window boxes at the apartment.

Murals on Barracks Row

As long as we were this far, and had an idea of where home was, we decided to keep going.  We ended up down by the Navy Yards and the Nationals Stadium before heading home.  Arrived and sat down at the computer to map out our friday date night trek.  About 7 miles with plenty to see and do!