Parking

Today Grandma and I went into the city to see two exhibits in the city. They were at 2 different museums but pretty close together. We drove in and felt lucky to find parking very close to our first stop (but in a parking garage). They had one handy cap parking spot and not much else. Lucky for me it was a big spot, most of the cars were Valet parking and the valet parked vehicles blocking in the vehicles across from us. Did I mention that Grandma has a BIG car?

This cut down on my swinging room considerably. I try to back into parking spaces epically when it is hard to get in and out, as I would rather have an easier time getting out. It took me nearly 3 heart attacks and a lot of pulling forward and back but we made it into that spot. Maybe sometimes it pays to use the valet parking. . .

The first museum was the National Portrait Gallery, it was less then 1/2 block from the parking lot. We unfortunately did not get the best of directions and walked more then we needed to. We finally found it and had to walk all the way around the block to get inside. The Calder Exhibit was nice, Grandma epically appreciated it as he is one of her favorite artists.

Then we went onto the National building museum. They had a exhibit of landmark buildings made out of Lego's. I like anything made of Lego's and Grandma was game so we took a cab over to the exhibit. We were a little disappointed as they did not have lots of buildings (maybe a dozen) and Grandma wanted them to be made out of colored blocks (they made them as true replicas). The ones that were done looked very much like the buildings that they represented, the ones I had seen before anyway. And it was neat to see an 18 foot building made of Lego's.

We walked back to the car and it was a breeze getting out of that dratted parking garage. Due to the traffic we made it just in time for dinner at 5 (we left at 3:30 and it was to be a 30 minute drive). Luckily we are both patient people and had a nice chat as we sat waiting to get out of the city.