DC Day 3 - Introducing Mrs. Palin

I'm a little behind at this point. There's reasons, but none of them are good. Read on and you'll (eventually) see why I'm writing about Friday on Sunday. Here's a recap of Day 3:
- Third day in a row that our foray into DC starts with the Federal Triangle Metro stop. Its getting old at this point. And once again its raining. What the flippity-eff!
- The National Aquarium seems at first to be a $7 scam. But what it lacks in size, it makes up for in butt ugly fish. Its nothing like what we've got back at home in Boston, but it was a good way to spend some time in the AM.
- The Metro is an interesting system. Its like each line works on the buddy system. Anyway, we took the LONG way out to the Pentagon for our 1:00 tour. The Blue Line goes ALL the way around the north western part of the city before crossing the Potomac, and shooting down to the Pentagon via Arlington. Still, its a hell of a lot faster than taking the Red Line from Boston to Quincy, so it has that going for it.
- I was expecting "airport" security virtually everywhere down here, and I've been conveniently disappointed. The Pentagon definitely had the toughest security of every place we've encountered, but we were able to crack it with two forms of ID, and a handy reservation email.
- Nothing like military precision. Our 1 pm tour started at 1:20.
- Nothing like military accuracy. The nice enlisted gentleman that lead us around didn't bump into a single thing while walking backwards for 45 minutes.
- The woman in the yellow "Jazz-ercise" t-shirt on the tour that didn't understand the well armed military man's instructions to "STAY TO THE RIGHT, ESPECIALLY ON ESCALATORS" annoyed me greatly. He would have done the world a favor if one of his buddies with an MP5 had put a couple in her for her insolence.
- Exiting the Pentagon: more rain. Yay.
- Big night out on the town (don't worry, we came back to the Courtyard for a quick afternoon nap before going out!), we hit up the Regan International Center for a performance by the Capital Steps. It wasn't until we were seated in an auditorium that reminded us of the Dana Center at St. A's that Meghan and I realized that we've been Capital Steps before. At St. A's. In the Dana Center.
- It was still well worth it (definitely go if you are in DC on a Friday/Saturday) - they managed to work Sarah Palin into their show, even though her nomination had been announced just hours before.