Heading home after visiting DC now. I can finally say that I've been to the capital of the US now. It was the only country I've been in that I'd never been to the capital of. I'm glad to finally be able to cross it off my list
Woo! DC is a cool place (is anyone surprised that I love all the museums there?). Be glad you didn't go in the summer, though, because it can get
hot: I went for a long weekend with my family and it didn't dip below 100F (37C) the entire time.
Had a random thought while reading an online newspaper (apparently meat has "some" correlation with cancer); it's kind of unfair that most of the foods that actually taste good are either bad or only good in small amounts. It's like nature is actively trolling us. Then it struck me that in the very least the only body function that is contagious is the yawn. Apparently nature isn't completely against us.
I think I read something about that being because stuff like fat and salt and other good-tasting things are necessary for human health, but for a large part of history, they were scarce. Now that we have an abundance of them, our instinctual tastes haven't caught up and make us want to eat too much of it. But I'm paraphrasing from a source I can't quite remember clearly, so take my words with a grain of salt (pun very much intended).