Virginia: Thanksgiving 2004

For thanksgiving 2004, we decided to head south rather than north. Our choice was mount vernon, virginia.

wednesday, november 24
We drove down on wednesday night and stayed at a nice hotel right in old town alexandria, the holiday inn select (which has since changed hands), and had dinner at the fish market, one of my old haunts where they serve draft beer in 32 oz. schooners!

thursday, november 25
Just 10 minutes south of alexandria, we toured george washington's mount vernon estate (check out my mount vernon pics) on a rainy and windy thanksgiving day. Then we had thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings (buffet style) at the mount vernon inn adjacent to the gift shop.

We were pretty much finished for the night, but we did stop in for a pint of guinness at another one of my old stomping grounds, pat troy's ireland's own. They will be celebrating their 25th anniversary in january, which means I was there just when the place was brand new. Unbelievable.

friday, november 26
On friday I headed into washington DC to check out some lesser known sites that I hadn't ever visited, had lunch on capital hill at bullfeathers, and then it was on to annapolis.