Christmas in the Capitol, December 2011

 

It actually happened - my first non-Kloecker Christmas.  A little weird at first, getting used to new Holiday traditions and all, but the change was good and I have to admit, it was nice to get back to some actual cold for Christmas!  None of this palm trees and sunshine stuff.  Ever since leaving Pennsylvania Christmas has never quite felt the same. We do get up to Mammoth a ton so I'm not exactly deprived of snow, but I wasn't angry at a little Holiday chill.  And speaking of Mammoth, I think this is my first post since October maybe?  Most of the time sine then has been spent trading between USC home games and Ski weekends, though the snow isn't exactly keeping up with last year's legendary pack.  But Back to Christmas!

I hadn't been back to D.C. since I was a little kid so I wanted to see the sights just as much as I wanted to relax and chill.  We checkout out the fields where the Battle of Bull Run took place, where you can see the old man watching over things, above.  And we got into the actual capital as well.

The New Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial was very beautiful and quite impressive in it's scale, plus that night was so incredibly clear and calm we got some great shots of the Jefferson Memorial across the water.

As is our style, we also made sure to get in some hiking to see the woods in the Winter.  But for all his enjoyment of the great outdoors, Hercules is more a homebody and preferred his lap time, spending some QT with the folks... :)