AAPRCO 2012 Trip - Day 1 - Washington, D.C.

Rick and I left Omaha early for a direct flight to Washington DC.  We arrived took the Metro to the Union Station, parked our baggage there and walked down to the Library of Congress National Book Festival which is this weekend.  We stopped at the Family Storytelling Stage to see The Not Ready for Naptime Players singing kids songs and R. L. Stine, author of the scary books for kids - the "Goosebumps" series.  He started publishing those in 1992-20 years!  He led the kids through a scary Halloween story.

We were able to get back to Union Station when the train arrived with our cars the Dearing and Berlin.  We were ushered by A. Thompson from Amtrak to our car.  The train then left the platform to go through the car wash, and to go through the inspection facility, which was a very, very long process.  By about midnight, they had us out of there moving about on the tracks to locate on the stealth #30 platform.  Other guests got off when we got on and were unable to get back aboard - they had to rent a room for the night.  Apparently they were moving us a lot last night but neither Rick or I realized it because we were fast asleep.

We have wonderful hosts: Borden Black, Nelson McGahee, Kevin Moore, Steward-Berry, and chef, John.