A Saturday Afternoon in the Capitol Hill Neighborhood

Almost every Saturday we go to the McLean Family Restaurant for brunch.  They know us so well there that we hardly need to tell them our order - they bring the drinks practically as soon as we sit down. Last weekend John Huntsman and his family were behind us inline waiting for a seat. Dr. Gupta from CNN, Newt Gingrich, and other notables have also been sighted. We like the drive to there along the George Washington Parkway - Memorial Bridge to the Lincoln Memorial, Roosevelt Island, and Saturday afternoon joggers and walkers along the pathways. Today we took an indirect way home to see what Christmas decor was up. We found protestors in front of the Capitol, but the Capitol Christmas tree is now decorated, a really neat huge white bark tree commanding attention on a street in front of the row houses, several Christmas trees on top of cars on their way home to be adorned, and the work crews fixing the never ending building issues on Capitol Hill. It is a lovely drive and neighborhood. The scenery is very different than Wisconsin, and we are getting more and more used to it. But somehow it always feels more remarkable.