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Your favorite things to do in DC?

samjamsamjam Posts: 9,283
edited January 2012 in All Encompassing Trip
Realizing that I'm almost halfway done with college and I need to take more advantage of having DC so close-by! What are your favorite things to do in DC? Restaurants I must eat at? Anything cool that's music related?
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    The National Zoo
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  • Black DiamondBlack Diamond Posts: 25,107
    Space Museum
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  • __ Posts: 6,651
    Madam's Organ - a bar in Adam's Morgan - is one of the coolest places I've been to in DC. The music was AWESOME when I went. The other totally awesome music venue I've been to in DC is this jazz club called Bohemian Caverns, which was an old speakeasy or something.

    And, of course, you can't beat the Smithsonian museums & national monuments - just the National Mall in general. My very favorite monument is the Korean War Memorial.
  • autumnautumn Posts: 191
    I am assuming you have been to the 9:30 club, great music venue, http://www.930.com/. I really like a coffee house/bar in Adam's Morgan called Tryst, http://www.trystdc.com/. The bartenders are great there, at least in my experience.

    Of course all of the Smithsonians, you can't beat the price! If you are going to be around the first week of April, DC is celebrating the national cherry blossom festival. This is the 100th year anniversary, unfortunately I have a wedding in Savannah, so I won't be there this year, but it is beautiful to walk the tidal basin with the trees in full bloom.
    There is so many fun things to do in DC, it kind of depends on what you're interested in. Hope some of these are of interest to you, enjoy! :)
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    Scam the american public
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  • HeisenbergHeisenberg Posts: 4,957
    81 wrote:
    Scam the american public

    :lol:
  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    81 wrote:
    Scam the american public
    ha

    good one, 81

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    leave
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  • FrankieGFrankieG Posts: 9,100
    chadwick wrote:

    i was gonna suggest to the youngman...poop


    I think Sam is a girl..

    I would say the Smithsonian, a trip to the mall for a protest, and the war monuments. (Monuments are lame but its cool to say you were there once.)
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  • dasvidanadasvidana Posts: 1,347
    I was a student at University of Maryland in the 80s and my DC favorites were:
    the old 9:30 club (I know there's a new one, haven't been to that, but the old was awesome)
    the Brickskellar (beers from around the world in Dupont Circle)
    Hiking on Roosevelt Island
    Hiking in Great Falls MD/VA
    The Sackler Gallery (Buddest art at Smithsonian Museum)
    Native American Museum on the Mall
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  • samjamsamjam Posts: 9,283
    Thanks for all the suggestions thus far! Some places I've been, quite a few I have not, so I now have some work cut out for me (but very fun work!) :)
    "Sometimes you find yourself having to put all your faith in no faith."
    ~not a dude~
    2010: MSGx2
    2012: Made In America
    2013: Pittsburgh, Brooklynx2, Hartford, Baltimore
    2014: Leeds, Milton Keynes, Detroit
    2015: Global Citizen Festival
    2016: Phillyx2, MSGx2, Fenwayx2
    2018: Barcelona, Wrigleyx2
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