Culminating in fireworks!!

What a day! Left Williamsburg fairly early, headed north. Stopped at Mount Vernon Gristmill & Distillery for brief tour, kinda interesting. We intended to go to Mount Vernon too, but it was crazy busy with holiday activities, so we bailed on that plan.

After getting rid of our car and checking into our hotel, we set out to explore. Hit the Mall, crowded with lots of people, religious nuts, hare Krishna festival, and horse flies the size of hummingbirds that liked to dive bomb us.

It was so hot and sticky. We ended up diving into museums just foe the AC. Saw the majority of the Natural History museum, and just a bit of American History. After grabbing dinner, we staked out a piece of grass right by the Washington monument To wait for fireworks. Worth the wait, they were tremendous!! Back in hotel relaxing....Joe's pedometer had us at 11.7 miles walked today! No wonder my feet are sore.