• Travel

    The Nation’s Capitol

    Yesterday Alicia and I arrived by train to Washington DC! We are here for the weekend because tomorrow I’m running the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler! After a 2.5 hour ride from Albany to NYC, our train to DC was delayed by 40 minutes. Finally, we boarded and arrived to Union Station at around 2:00pm. After figuring out how to use the Metro (its actually pretty easy!) we went to our hotel. We couldn’t check in yet so we wandered around the National Mall and the Smithsonian Castle. I think the cherry blossoms were on their last legs, but they were still beautiful. Washington Monument. The Smithsonian Castle. The Enid A.…