After some conferencing, we picked up a car and headed to Adams Morgan for some food. We had read online about a place called The Diner. I had French toast, scrambled eggs, bacon, English muffin, and grits. Tasty grits. Alan had something called the Croque and Dagger... 2 Eggs, toasted French loaf, bacon, and béchamel sauce topped with melted Gruyere. Served with Home Fries. Neither of us cared for the Croque and Dagger.
After breakfast, cupcakes. This time the destination was Hello Cupcake. Another four pack: you tart!, peppermint penny, chococo, and triple coconut. I only liked the triple coconut but liked it enough to want to go back for a couple more. I took some photos of the cupcakes in the box while there in the shop and a good thing I did. After we arrived at our next stop, Gettysburg, I knocked the box over in the car and all the frostings got mangled up together. Messy.
A note about Wednesday and Georgetown Cupcake... we ended up with the following flavors: carrot, lemon berry, peanut butter lava, and chocolate^2. The lemon berry looked nice but not my favorite. Carrot... bland. The peanut butter lava was great. I wanted Boston crème but it was not the right day.
Gettysburg was a little bit of a drive but it was through a nice area. It is surprising that just a little bit out of D.C. you have a quiet, country setting. We stopped at the visitor center and picked up an audio tour on cd. The recording includes historical information and stories, a nice balance. It was quiet on the tour and we went at our own pace, stopping for pictures for as long as we wanted or just driving on if we wanted. The grounds were stark as it is the end of winter. Memorials dot the landscape, both confederate and union. Just being able to stand there and look at the wheat field, writing about it now, brings tears to my eyes. The visitor center has a cyclorama that has a presentation recorded with it. It is eerie how real the painting looks.
It is hard to describe the experience. It was a lot of things to think about and a lot of instant emotion. I am not a history person so a lot of the specifics were fairly new information to me. Alan explained a good amount and the audio tour filled in a lot. I am really glad we went. Thanks to Brian and Shirley for the suggestion.
After the tour, we grabbed a bite to eat at a restaurant called Eddie’s. It used to be the Gingerbread Man, so recently in fact that they haven’t changed the outside sign yet. The potato skins were good, everything else just grub.We drove back in the dark after a long, mentally draining day.
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