Alexandria Update

Okay so I called our corporate travel lady this morning to book my hotel room. There's a nice Radisson in Old Town Alexandria right on the Potomac that our company has a contract with. This way the room is direct billed to the company and I never have to pay anything. Well it was booked....so were the other hotels our company uses. So I was kind of bummed out....then the corporate travel lady says, "Hold on, we have a nice one here with one room available....it's a 2 bedroom suite." I was like, "I'll take it!" The best part is that it is right smack dab in the middle of all the cool shit....restaurants, shops, river walk area, etc. The only drawback is that it is $400 plus tax per night. Since we don't have a contract with them I have to front the bill and then get reimbursed which is no big deal since I have a travel credit card anyways. Just a pain in the ass doing the expense sheets but I would have to do it anyway to get paid for tolls and mileage. The other bad thing is it is a far walk to our company HQ from here. The Radisson is right across the street but this is like 10 blocks or so. Guess I will take my bike over. By the way anyone know what the corp. mileage rate is these days?

I am looking forward to eating at the Chart House also. I ate there last time I was at HQ. It is on the river and elevated a bit so you have a great view of everything. Then they got all kinds of great pubs there in Old Town so I will probably bar hop for a little while and go back to my room and go to bed.

Did anyone (i.e. 2 of you plus the occasional stranger) do anything special for mother's day? I sent my wife a big thing of flowers to her in Germany and sent my mom a card with $$$ in it.