Nice wake-up call (<>), after which we had some breakfast and got ready for heading out. We decided to visit Mt Vernon, and we used a ride-sharing app called Empower, which is local to this area, better for the drivers, and cheaper than Uber or Lyft. Weren't sure how it would work, but it was fine. The driver picked us right up and took us directly to the entrance to Mt Vernon. Car was a little run-down, but it got us there. The visit was pretty interesting. The mansion is not as ostentatious as I thought it would be, and it was pretty small. Washington married into money when he married the widow Martha Custus. He had about 200 slaves on his property, and he was an avid and creative farmer after he left the presidency. The grounds were better to walk around than the mansion, nicely landscaped and maintained, including flower, vegetable, grain, and tree garden areas.We got a ride back into DC using the same app, we were dropped off at the Wharf area, where we had a mediocre and expensive lunch. Then we took a free shuttle over to the National Mall and had a quick visit to the Hirshhorn Museum. It featured more modern art and had an installation by Laurie Anderson that was pretty cool. We got on the Metro and took it out to East Falls Church to meet a friend of Ann's, Liz Denman, who she knew from our time in Israel. We had dinner at a really good, and authentic, Vietnamese vegetarian restaurant, then we walked around the little array of Vietnamese shops and chatted. There were a surprisingly large number of Trump posters in the shops. Then it was the Metro back to Eastern Market and the walk to the flat. It was a long day and a good one.
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