Day One in DC. 
Can it be: to be woken up by the noise of a jackhammer tearing up the sidewalk next door. Oh the cli of the big city. Can't believe we're here again.
A day of errands. Last time we were here I thought I loaned our TV to my daughter until we came back. I guess I was mistaken. It seems I gave it to her and it is now well encased in her new home. So our task today; acquire a TV and locate an exercise bike for Angie. The TV's not a problem thanks to Costco, the bike was another issue entirely. Why is it, what should be a simple task can become much more than expected. It seems that Costco California had a specific bike Angie wanted but the only store she could identify as having it on the east coast was in Norfolk, VA. That turns out to be about a 6 hour car ride, that is if you have a car.  Once we established that was a bit far to go for a bike we started a search of local Costco warehouses. After calling a number of locations all over Maryland and Virgina, even one in Columbus, we found the bike in Fairfax, VA. O'goody! that's only 20 miles away. Enlisting the help of our daughter and her car we headed out. Unfortunately, thanks to the wounders of technology the 20 miles stretched to ~40. The GPS had a propensity for directing us down a most circuitous route. Eventually we got it done, mission accomplished; bike and TV,
Oh, I failed to mention the exercise bike weights 100+ pounds. Not that getting it into Jenny's Outback wasn't a tight fit but getting it home and up the elevator was great fun.
Home at last. Now un-box the TV and put it together. Screws wont go in where they are suppose to, so now its a little wobbly on its stand.  Since we don't have cable in the condo,  I don't want to pay for it during the time where not here, I had to arrange the antenna position about 4 times and reprogram the TV before locking in all the right signals. 35 stations now, half of which are Spanish language, but at least we get the major stations and we're TV enabled.

Now for the fun stuff, the Bike. I thought that I was through with "some assembly required" Christmas's. After two glasses of wine and a lot of angst it got done, thanks for the tools provided with the kit and a great instruction interpreter.

Now all to do is put a big bow around something and celebrate.
What a great day