Yesterday, with the beautiful weather and Robert recently out of school, we decided to bike across the bridge and check out the new Capital Wheel.
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Yesterday, with the beautiful weather and Robert recently out of school, we decided to bike across the bridge and check out the new Capital Wheel.
The bike ride was great; Robert’s new bike seemed to treat him really well and we made the full trip there without incident or need to walk. We did stop to take in the view from the bridge — the telescope and binoculars in the overlooks are free, a very nice bonus.
And the circular ride down from bridge to ground level was lots of fun.
The wheel was fun and the view was nice. But National Harbor is really too far from DC to say the view of the capital was great. It was nice; we really appreciated that the cars had air conditioning as it was about 85 outside.
It provided a great view of how much the area around National Harbor has been built up. It’s impressive considering there was nothing when we moved into our house.
Too bad the line for the wheel was outside; fortunately, mostly in the shade. We did see one patron ahead of us who fainted in the heat. Sarah predicts they will install misters before the summer is out.
And, of course, while there, we had to spend some time with The Awakening, the cool sculpture that was moved down from Hain’s Point when National Harbor was built.
And we stopped in at the Peep store to get a little extra energy (and cold water) for the trip back home.
All-in-all, a very pleasant outing.
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