Troop-baseball had and is still having a long Friday. We boarded Amtrak in Philly bound for DC at 930a, and pulled in at 11:00a. We grabbed a map and were surprised on what we'd already seen from the trip a few years before, so we picked a couple of sights and started a Trek around town. In searching for an ATM, Dad was nanded a chinese restaurant menu so we set out to find it after buying an all day pass on Metro. It turned out a bit too authentic for the kids but Dad called it a great find. The window picture is the owner making his own noodles, shown step one of four.

That started our loop on the subways hitting the National Aquarium (ok, but still coming along) and we stepped thru the American History museum. Other than the gift shop, we didn't have much time before the game, but we walked thru a newer Star Spangled banner display. Quite moving to Dad. We're not sure, but we believe they were trying to convince us it was the flag Francis Scott Key saw from his ship at the end of the 1812 war and inspired him to write the anthem.

We needed to get back to the train station to pick Shannon's bag up on the way to Nationals stadium. We pulled in 90 minutes before game time so we saw the Giants batting practice and hounding for homeruns. We moved too quick from our vantage point as 3 ball landed exactly where we left. Oh well
The first pictures are from the walk from Metro to the park, a short 1 block walk. The entrance, courtyard and center field restaurants are in the pictures. We were lucky enough to see the rookie phenom from San Diego St. Strasburg pitch against the Giants. His first batter hit a home run, but he dominated after the first ending, lasted a total of 6 and that was the last Giant run of the night. Nationals 8, Giants 1. No hurry this time to leave, we stayed for the 15 min of fireworks after. Although all 3 of us were getting real tired. All the pix have captions on them.
We are waiting back at DC Union train station for our 3a train to NY, setting us up for a stop in the hotel then on to game 4 with Mets at 4pm.
I'm sure we're going to crash hard after that one expecting our train sleep to be rough at best.
Good to be in our Nation's capital and saw a great turnout at the game because the phenom pitched. I hear they draw 1/5 of the fans when he isn't throwing. Talking about earning this contract for a change.
Signing off now to catch a quick wink on the hard train station chairs, and looking forward to an early bedtime tomorrow due to the early Mets game.

Take care all, and blogging with late tomorrow again.
Oh, sorry Dick, the Giants looked feable against all the National pitchers. There were a handful of Giant fans there also though.
Also, some of my pix are blurry but I'm including them anyway. The longer distance the shot, the less I get to use the sport mode in the camera.