East Coast Extravaganza Begins!

Hey faithful readers,

WE MADE IT TO D.C.!! We have officially begun our east coast trip and as promised are working very hard to not procrastinate 3 weeks to make a post. Erin and her dad picked us up at the airport yesterday and gave us a very good tour of D.C. We saw the major landmarks as well as the Georgetown campus and The George Washington University. Our first meal in D.C. was at the Good Stuff Eatery (indeed they did have good stuff). It is a restaurant owned by a contestant on Bravo’s reality TV show “Top Chef”. We had delicious burgers and fries. Their menu boasts food made with really good stuff such as farm raised beef, chicken, and turkey as well as organic local produce. Chel and I both could not resist the Smokehouse burger. It had bacon, bbq sauce and Vidalia onion rings. Also, their Michelle Melt and Prez Obama burger are worth checking out. Here is a picture of us outside of the restaurant.

Today Erin, Edwin and I rented a car from a friendly gentleman at Hertz. He gave us a 2010 Toyota Camry with a GPS contraption (gratis). We drove to Virginia to go wine tasting and had a four star day (out of four). We went to 2 wineries, the first being far superior to the second. Bluemont Vineyard is at 951 ft above sea level, giving it incredible views of the vineyards and surrounding wooded hills. It was also named one of the best places to have a wedding by The Knot (In fact, our wino lady is getting married there. Today was also her first day there… coincidence??? Who knows but she will probably get a sweet deal). Beauteous. The wine was delish and we shared a bottle, baguette and cheese & fruit plate out on the patio to soak it all in. It was great.

The second winery was crap. Not really, but it didn’t live up to the first. We didn’t like the wine very much, and our wino lady wasn’t up to snuff. I won’t name names. Good interior decorating, but they really need to lay off the buttery tastes in their wines… just saying!

After the wineries, we went to Harper’s Ferry, WV. Side note: We drove through 3 states today (Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia). Harper’s Ferry is an adorable little historic town. All we did was get ice cream. But a nice man at the Swiss Miss ice cream shop told us there was a lovely museum (we were guaranteed 20 minutes of amusement) about John Brown (aka “The white guy who freed all the slaves”… in WV). We took his word for it and went on our way.

Tonight we will paint the town red. Stay tuned, rumor has it something really cool is going to happen tomorrow. Also, Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers reading our blog (a.k.a. Greg, Manuel, and Adam…CJ???) we’re very lucky to have you as fathers/readers/friends.