Open thread

We went out to a Christmas party in the burbs tonight. In Washington, DC, the Virginia suburbs might as well be California - no one likes leaving their neighborhood in this town, even if it is just a ten to fifteen minute drive. The nice thing about driving into Virginia is the view. It really is wonderful, driving along the Potomac, past the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Memorial, and then the bridge into Virginia (then past the Pentagon or the Iwo Jima Memorial, depending where you're heading). This time we did the Pentagon route, which led us past the relatively-new Air Force Memorial, which is actually nice. (I hate the WWII memorial, it's a gaudy hideous eyesore smack dab in the middle of what was once a between plain between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.) Anyway, the Air Force memorial is nice.



And driving by the Lincoln Memorial never gets old.