After the defeat in the semi-finals and the hanging heads of my team, I needed a little time out and I followed the invitation of the family from a college to Mclean, Virginia.
Chills...
But long resting was not, because we were walking the so-called Chesapeake And Ohio Canal Trail right next day. Sure, everything is a bit bald (also there is autumn), but you still enter a rather untouched landscape.
first explore the surroundings (Mari, Ikke, Riley and Spencer)
Then again chills (at last another dog!).
In the center of the USA (as long as there is ...)
First dinner in a "Fancy Restaurant" at Watergate Hotel (famous - notorious)

On the ballet performance "The Nussknacker" at the Kennedy Center