To start out with, I'd like to say thank you to anybody who is reading this and pays taxes. Thanks to your donations to the federal government, I was able to fly to DC this week and rent a car to drive around for 2 days. I also had $44 a day to spend on food. That was very generous of you all. So thank you.
Tuesday was a super long day. Yogurl and I got up at 2:30 am so we could catch our 5:30 flight. We got a little lost on our way to the airport, but since I wasn't afraid to ask directions, we got there just fine. Then we got into San Diego at 9:00. Yogurl went home, but I stayed there since I had a flight at 1:30 to DC. I tried to see if I could catch an earlier flight, but when I tried to check in it turned out that my unit had never finalized my tickets. Thanks guys! So I spent about an hour getting that worked out. Anyway, I got into DC around 11:00 pm and finally got to my hotel in Quantico just before 1:00.
The next day I got up early and went over to the Executive Safety Board. I was the NCO representative for MCI West. Apparently this was the first time they have had NCO's at the meeting. I wouldn't be surprised if it is the last. The other NCO's were so stupid I felt ashamed to be sitting with them. For example, one of them said that while he had never ridden a motorcycle, he thought that crashing on one wouldn't be so bad and that safety could be improved by reducing the protective riding gear requirements. Wow.
Since they realized we were totally useless, they let us leave around 1:30. So I changed and drove off to DC as quick as I could.
Yogurl says that I make a funny face when I take pictures of myself, but I think this picture proves her wrong. Let me tell you, DC is probably the coolest city I have ever been to. I say probably because Montreal will always hold a special place in my heart. Otherwise, DC is totally the coolest place on Earth. I got lost looking for Arlington and ended up parked near the Washington Monument. 
I didn't have a ton of time where I was parked, so I decided that getting close to the White House and going in the Lincoln Memorial were my top priorities. 
The whole area was just amazing. Just outside the Lincoln Memorial I got to see the Wall as well, which I didn't realize was right there. Seeing these spots, as well as the WWII memorial, made me really wish I had more time to pay proper respect, but I will definitely be going back again someday.
I never made it to Arlington. I got lost in DC for about 80 minutes, and then it was dark, so I just ate something and went back to my hotel. The trip back was pretty good, I slept on the planes quite a bit, and Yogurl was there to pick me up. What a great trip.
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