Discovering YOU Magazine April 2019 Issue | Page 34

VACATION AND TRAVEL

happening certain times of the day. While you are there, go tour the adjacent “Arlington House” from the late 1700’s which is owned by “Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s” family before the Civil War.

Night life in Washington DC can be nice with everything all lit up to see especially from the back of a boat. A few good ones I recommend is the “Washington DC Odyssey” and the “Spirit of Washington DC” dinner cruises. The Odyssey is a 2-3 hour cruise on the “Potomac River” with

a live band, dance floor, a 3 course dinner, having an outstanding panoramic view of famous landmark monuments, and the “Washington DC Skyline” all lit up.

The Spirit of Washington DC offers daytime sightseeing lunches and evening dinner cruises with a buffet, a DJ, a dance floor, which is also a 2-3-hour cruise. Parking is limited at both cruise sites, but if you take the METRO bus, it should be the “Green-line” that drops you off at the bus stop near the pier at the “Southwest Waterfront” neighborhood which would

The Odyssey Cruise Boat on the Potomac River