"Just Me "Koi"" wrote in message
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Just got back today.

Left (was suppose to leave) Baltimore Washington International Tuesday
night
at 9:00 pm, then the mother of all rain and lighting started! Stuck on
the
freaking runway for 2-1/2 hours! Missed my connecting flight in Vegas at
1:00 am today. Me, wifey, 3 daughters, 12months, 8 years, and 10 years.
The two older girls wanted to know why Daddy can't do something about the
delay and the missed flight.

A mother of a storm eh? We were swimming when the skies darkened and
exploded. It rained like that until 7am the next day. We got about 3-4
inches. The pond overflowed, and the pool is near overflowing.

The trip was fine. My girls and my wife got to see everything they've
learned in the history book for the first time. They absolutely loved
Jamestown, Williamsburg, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Hampton, Newport News,
Suffolk, and Arlington Va,. Loved DC with all the monuments and
government
places.

Awesome. I am glad you didn't pop in to see Shareholders Pond. It is a mess,
and I wouldn't want to soil your image of MD.

I got all emotional standing in the center of modern democracy! The
center
of the capitol. Had to give my family a speech on how moved I was that
the
entire capitol, revolves around the center which in turn represents the
people. All the might and power in that building and in that city is
actually in the hands of the people in small towns and villages. The bums
can be thrown out without any military coup, war or such other non sense!
I
totally digressed didn't I?

I've worked downtown for years. Funny how you revel in it, and I deplore it.
I guess when you are there all day, every day, it kind of wears on you. Not
to mention I get to see the parts of DC that are not so romantic. Did you
get to check out any of the ponds in DC? The zoo has a nice one, and there
are a few nices ponds around the city.

Anyway they loved Baltimore Inner Harbor and Big Bubba's Barbq, Chesapeake
Bay Bridge tunnels, Bowie, Annapolis, on and on. I did a drive by of
North
Carolina (Elizabeth City).

The family suffered under the heat and humidity of the east coast though!
Lucky enough that we stayed for the most part in 3 star hotels (Marriott
DC
at the convention center, Hyatt Regency at the Capitol, Sheraton at
Norfolk
Waterside, etc.

Heat and humidity? Har har har. We've been wondering why summer is not here
yet.

Next year Europe? My European friends, you are being given a 12 month
advance notice!
snip

Glad you had a good time.

BV.