Rainy day in Washington, D.C.

Jackson has been traveling a lot for work and was one flight away from hitting a new status with Southwest. He needed that flight before December 31 so we decided to head to Washington, D.C. for a long weekend. We love the nation’s capital during the holidays.

We booked an early Saturday morning flight and got to D.C. on a gloomy, rainy day. We didn’t really mind the rough weather because we were staying at the Intercontinental D.C. Wharf which is one of the fancier hotels around. We didn’t mind having a reason to just lounge around our room in their robes soaking in the view of the harbor.

He loves to pose with this sign!

We did grab an Uber into town to hit our favorite pizza joint.

Waiting for our Uber in the rain!

The best pizza in DC!

SO GOOD! 

It was still rainy so after lunch we went back to our robes and Netflix. Since we have been packing and showing the house it felt like we had not relaxed much recently. Sometimes you just need a new location to really unwind.

Pelotons!

 The hotel also had two Peloton bikes in its fitness center that were calling our name. We’ve been considering getting one for about a year and the idea of testing them out in tandem was cool. The class was much harder than we anticipated, but we finished. We loved the Peloton! If only it did not cost about $2,500!!! After an intense workout that we claimed to ourselves erased our pizza consumption, we cleaned up and headed out to explore the neighborhood. The rain had finally passed.

The Christmas tree is all lit up now!

Awesome fireworks

We stayed in the same hotel at the same time last year because they have a big Christmas festival and it was worth visiting again. They had a parade of decorated boats, amazing fireworks and even s’mores (more on that later). We did some browsing in the cute little stores around the Wharf before catching the thrilling end of the Alabama vs. Georgia football game outside of a bar with some new stranger friends we’d made.

Happy Anniversary to us!

Eventually the cold set in and we retired to our room to finish watching the silliest Christmas movie on Netflix. A Christmas Prince is worth watching. The sequel, A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding, just is not. We were pleasantly surprised that the hotel had left us a goodie tray since we mentioned having just celebrated 12 years of marriage when we checked in! Chocolate covered strawberries are my favorite fruit.

What a great day!