After the semi-final defeat and the hanging heads of my team, I needed a little time off and therefore I accepted the invitation of a fellow student to Mclean, Virginia a little earlier.
Chills...
But it was not long to rest, because we hiked the so-called Chesapeake And Ohio Canal Trail the next day. Sure, now everything is a bit bare (also there is autumn), but you still enter a fairly untouched landscape.
first explore the area (Mari, Ikke, Riley and Spencer)
Then chill again (finally a dog again!).
In the center of the USA (as long as this one still exists ...)
First Dinner at a "Fancy Restaurant" at the Watergate Hotel (famous - notorious)

On to the ballet performance "The Nutcracker" at the Kennedy Center