DC Waterfront

On Saturday Liz and I went in to Silver Spring, MD to visit with some of our friends. I knew that they had invited us to come out on some kind of boat, but I had no idea it was their boat. I was expecting some kind of dinner cruise or sight seeing thing, but it ended being a private cruise around the Potomac river and basin for the entire afternoon. Needless to say, it rocked.

The neat part was that it wasn't really their boat. They belong to a boat club and so anytime they want, they can just reserve a boat and take it out on the water anywhere on the east coast and they never have to worry about the maintainance or storage. Seems like a great idea. We were out on Miss Guided. Aptly named as you'll read later.



First off Derrick got some instruction on how to operate the vessell. You know, basic stuff. How to turn left and right, turning on the anit-aircraft radar and explaining the "pimp-my-boat" button and the "convert-to-hover craft" button.


Then we were off to check out stuff on the water starting with some familiar landmarks.



As well as some more practical monuments like the Wilson Bridge and some other bridge with a big train coming across it.



Then we headed south towards Mt. Vernon and saw some incredible houses along the water. These things weren't just houses. Tracy put it best. "That's not one house. That's like 7 or 8 houses." I agree.



It was a peaceful quiet and relaxing day except for the occaisonal phone call.


The best part was that towards the end of the day we started to have some engine trouble. Why is that a good thing? Because first of all, when you break down in the middle of the Potomac you're still out on a boat in the middle of the Potomac so it's beautiful and fun. Second, the boat didn't belong to any of us so no one was going to have to pay for a costly repair. Third, Derrick was able to sort of get one motor to work so we had a nice slow crawl all the way back to DC which was really quite enjoyable. Fourth, because of the engine trouble they didn't have to pay for gas. Sweet. We headed up to the Georgetown waterfront and had a nice meal at Bangkok Joe's and then headed back to Silver Spring.