Today was nine miles, followed by a one mile walk back to the metro because there's no metro in Georgetown. My turn-around spot, and the location for you all to guess, required me to trek up Wisconsin Avenue, which is quite the hill. Along the way, I passed a brand-new Safeway store, which almost convinced me to move to Georgetown. It was beautiful and sold cold water bottles for only 50 cents, making me fall in love with the store even more. After reaching my turn-around point (clues to follow) and getting lost in some residential parts of Georgetown, I emerged on M Street next to Georgetown cupcake. I decided that after running 9 miles, I deserved a cupcake, so I got a chocolate peanut butter chip one, which I promptly devoured at 11am. Great breakfast. I walked the rest of the way to the Rosslyn metro and made it home with only a few terrible blisters.
So, in addition to the clues embedded in the above description, here a couple more:
1) This building has a variety of gargoyles, some modeled after Star Wars characters.
2) No public funds could be used to construct this building because that would have violated the Establishment Clause.
Happy guessing!
I'm thinking it is the National Cathedral. I haven't looked it up, though. Upon further reflection, though, it seems very odd that I associate the National Cathedral with Star Wars.
ReplyDeleteKatie is right!!!!! As her prize, she will get to come visit me at the end of this month! Woohoo! (They really do have Star Wars gargoyles. I think there was a contest where people submitted ideas when they were building it.)
ReplyDeleteActually it is a Darth Vader grotesque (gargoyles have pipes that shoot out water, grotesques divert the water way via the angles they have). For more information about Darth Vader at the National Cathedral check out: http://www.nationalcathedral.org/pdfs/darth.pdf
ReplyDeleteLet's make a field trip to the new Safeway and Georgetown Cupcake!! But can we drive please?
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