Sunday, June 28, 2009

Georgetown

On Memorial Weekend I did a walking tour of Georgetown. The kind where you have the map and the list of interesting places and you go at your own pace, not the kind where you have a tour guide. On the whole, it was much less interesting than I thought it would be. Plus it was hot as Hades and twice as humid. So here are the highlights of my couple of hours in Georgetown.

This is a famous/historic church. Like most famous/historic churches, 10 minutes after I left I could no longer tell you why it is famous. I believe it was the first African American church in Georgetown (or maybe DC), but don't quote me on that.



There was definitely interesting architecture in Georgetown. I took pictures of a couple of interesting buildings, but a lot of them just couldn't be photographed well.

I loved the real gas lamps that were on some of the houses.

Cool church. No idea if it is historically significant.

This is the waterfront area in Georgetown. It was really nice and after the walking tour I stopped there to eat my lunch. It was by far the most enjoyable part of the afternoon.

2 comments:

Brandi said...

Looks pretty there. Is it as hot and humid as Hawaii??

Jen said...

More humid because there is not much of a breeze and they have a lot of thunderstorms. It's like the days when the trades are not blowing. But not all the time, some days are just nice- like this weekend, and sometimes it rains/thunderstorms. The day I went to Georgetown it was overcast and sooo humid. It finally started to rain when I was on the train on the way home.