Powells do DC (and NY!)

At the beginning of June we were very excited to welcome our friends Richard and Avril from the UK.  We were lucky that the first full day of their visit coincided with the Jubilee bank holiday so we were able to spend the day together doing some touristy things.  We started the day at Arlington Cemetery before heading downtown to the the Washington monument, White House and American History Museum.

In the evening we headed to a Nats game, it was Richard and Avril's first baseball game.

After a couple of days with us in DC, Richard and Avril headed up to New York for a few days on their own before Chris and I went to join them over the weekend.

We spent Saturday morning wondering around the city then in the afternoon we went to the Guggenheim Museum.  It was the first time that we had been and we all really enjoyed it.

On Sunday morning after breakfast at our favourite diner we visited the aircraft carrier Intrepid which is located on the Hudson river.  The week before they had delivered the Space Shuttle Enterprise to it's new home on the carrier.  They're going to take a few months before you can actually get up close to the shuttle but we could see it from the side of the river.

We went on board both Intrepid and the submarine USS Growler, both were really good fun despite being busy.  Before we headed back to DC we introduced Richard and Avril to one of the best cupcake shops - Crumbs.

Our guests spent their second week back with us in DC.  Unfortunately I had to work all week but Chris managed to take a few days off to act as tour guide.  

We decided to go over to Baltimore to watch another baseball one evening.  Before the game we went for a quick look at the harbour and found that there was a festival on and lots of visiting naval ships from different countries.  Avril and I went on the ship from Mexico and had some very handsome naval officers welcome us aboard!