Day3: le Sofitel Lafayette Sq. is a fairly amazing hotel almost a block off the square where the Whitehouse is. The staff and the rooms are impressive which they should be for it's location and the $500++ per night rate. We're paying a fraction of that, or we wouldn't be here. I gather it's a regular spot for french diplomats, not sure we fit in exactly. The small eatery starts off at $15 for a small bowl of breakfast cereal and goes up from there.
Below you can see the 35in. TV and granite topped desks with the featherbed on the side. The bathroom is bigger than some hotel rooms and is all marble and granite tile. The only clue to this being a 'low end' room here is that the window looks out on an interior lightwell.
A look down Pennsylvania Ave. The big tower is the Old Post Office. There is some other old building off in the distance.
We spent a rather long day at the Museum of Natural History. The picture is of the rotunda area. There are three floors each with a normal sized museum on it. They just re-did the whole thing in the last couple years and most of the exhibits are quite amazing. My feet are tired.
There is a very nice dinner place across from the hotel. Potenza http://www.potenzadc.com with good 'new Italian' cusine. They have only been open for a month or so and things are really hoppin' in there.
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