Having a capital time!

Hanging out in our nation's capital today. We arrived here from Princeton on the Amtrak at 10.10am, disembarked at the legendary Union Station and by the time we got to our son's place it was clse to 10.45am. He lives in a really adorable English basement, sort of sized like a studio apt. What impressed me the most is how clean the place is...he tells me he cleaned it out last week so when he moves to his new apt. end of this month he will have less cleaning to do. All those years of yelling at him to clean his room during his teenage years seems to have paid off! Soon after we left home, first to quickly go check out his new digs and then to Georgetown for lunch at Le Madelaine. His new apt. is gorgeous....a 1920 hotel converted into apts. and he will be sharing an apt on the 4th floor with another roommate. It has a really opulent lobby and for $500 a year ($250 apiece) they each get to indulge in all the extra amenities which include a gym on the main level, dry cleaning pick up services and - get this - a full Continental breakfast in the hotel lobby every morning!!!!! Wow!

After lunch we went and saw the new movie out by Al Gore called "An Inconvenient truth". For those of you who have not yet seen it, I urge you to do so! Its fascinating and compelling and most of all, scary! The influence that global warming is going to have on future generations is grim...!

I just absolutely love this city...its row houses, the quaint streets and fabulous restaurants, the cabbie drivers, the energy it radiates, the young people....just great! In a couple of years Raga and I want to come and live here for a month.

This evening we are heading to see a live taping of the Bill Maher show - Politically Incorrect. Should be a blast if previous shows are any indication.

Just got back from a fun evening. Had dinner at an Indian restaurant (Gautam wanted Indian, he doesn't eat it often enough and was starved for some). Then we went to the Bill Maher show...it wasn't the usual taping of the show but a sort of stand up routine. He was very funny, but very irreverent. Cracked some very off color jokes which had some of us squirming in our seats, but nevertheless very funny. Then we went to see the White House, the Capitol building, the treasury and other govt. buildings in the area and then walked and walked and walked till we got home...some 16 blocks or so.

G's new apt