STAYcation, Anyone?
A FUN
KID-FRIENDLY GETAWAY IN
THE DISTRICT
BY PJ FEINSTEIN
M y husband and I may have sur-
prised our two boys this summer
with a staycation in D.C., but we
actually got the idea from them.

For nearly a year since a canceled
fl ight unexpectedly kept us overnight in
Savannah, Georgia, they’d been asking
when we’d be able to sleep in a hotel again
— and for nearly a year we responded, “We
don’t know!” When we travel, it’s usually
because we’re visiting family, and we didn’t
have any other trips on the calendar for the
upcoming school year.

However, after my kids asked about
staying in a hotel for the 187th time, it
dawned on me that we didn’t have to book
an expensive long-distance vacation in
order to spend the night at a hotel. There
are a ton of hotel options in D.C.; we could
stay locally and be tourists for a day right
here in our own city.

We decided on the Omni Shoreham
Hotel, which overlooks Rock Creek Park,
because of its resort-style atmosphere and
its proximity to a Metro station. Best of both
worlds, right? After arriving one Saturday,
the four of us headed outside for a quick
lunch at the pool bar, fueling up for our fi rst
adventure of the day — a ride on the Metro.

My boys are 5 and 8, still young enough
to love the Metro. They seriously could
be content riding the red line from Shady
Grove to Glenmont and back again, but
that day we had a surprise destination in
mind. See, like many children, if there’s one
thing my kids love more than the Metro,
it’s superheroes, so we took them to the
National Museum of American History’s
“Superheroes” exhibit of costumes and
comic books.

qFun at the Jefferson Hotel
qInternational Spy Museum
50 Washington FAMILY OCTOBER 2019