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Vacation in D.C. First thing I saw off the plane in DC was a kiosk that was selling FBI, CIA t-shirts. It didn't help that I was already winding down from my morning wake up call that almost wasn't. (Cats actually woke me up, not the alarm, how sad is that). Made my flight by 15 minutes. Another ominous note was in Cincinnati where I read Delta was going to file for Bankruptcy. Don't have to tell you what airlines I was on. Mr. Watkins, hopefully ARO will include at least one picture that you can double as a postcard. Went to most of the monuments in the immediate area. Petrena, I'm assuming when you say "Visit the Washington Memorial" you mean take the elevator to the top. Well, I didn't because you need passes and I'll pass on that for now. Also, Joe, you need a pass to visit the Permanent Exhibition on the Holocaust, which I will also have to pass on. I did visit the childrens portion which basically was David's version of Anne Frank. Saw WWII, Korean, Vietnam memorials. Didn't see any Rockstead's or Bohn's or Overman's, but did see a Overman-Rodriguez at the Vietnam. I think I liked the WWII memorial the best, at the base of the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial. Didn't visit the Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt Memorials across the bay. Can't find anything in the guides here about no Chicago Steak restaurant, but like she always does, she dragged me (almost literally since I was wore out from the day excursion) to a Brazilian restaurant near the Zoo. Tomorrow is the Smithsonian and maybe the White House tour. I'm sure there's more, Natural History? We'll probably see the Zoo and Aquarium Saturday. Oh, the Hotel Washington is the same hotel Richard and I stayed at years ago for the ALG informational gathering NLC did. Well, gotta go, need my beauty rest for tomorrow. Randy Addendum from Azucena... Well, the highlight to my day today was actually at the conference. Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway spoke at our conference for an hour and a half. It was one of the best speaches I had attended. He was only going to talk for an hour but asked for more time and the Admiral told him to take all the time he needed. There are some excellent quotes he mentioned, here's one If we knew what we were doing.. they wouldn't call it research, would they? - Albert Einstein Azucena