*Quick Naval Academy fact- every person who is enrolled is required to partake in a varsity sport.
Annapolis is a quaint artistsan community which revolves around the state capital building as well as the academy. It has many local shops, bookstores, coffee shops, and restaurants none of which are corporately owned (AMAZING). For those of you in Southern California, Annapolis will remind you of Cardiff.
After a day in Annapolis we spent an entire day exploring our nations capital. We first took the metro into the city center where we started at the Library of Congress, then to the Supreme Court building, Congress, the U.S. botanical garden, Union Station, White House, Monument, Lincoln Monument, tidal basin with the cherry blossom blooms with the Jefferson monument and then finally the Smithsonian. 
Alot for one day. 
We then spent the next day relaxing with the Grandparents. On Thursday we woke early to make a failed attempt at catching an East coast sunrise followed by a West coast sunset. -Paul
