That flight did leave the next morning . . . eventually, about an hour and a half later than scheduled. We found out that the flights cancelled the day before were not full, and the morning flight easily accommodated all tickets for all three flights (2 yesterday and the morning today). Obviously the only “mechanical issues” the plane was experiencing was too much gas used for too few passengers on the previous days scheduled flights – so they cancelled the flights.

With every single passenger swearing up and down that they’d never fly Silver again, I don’t really see how they expect to stay in business, at least at the PKB airport.

Finally around 1pm we landed in the rain at Dulles. We tried Uber for the first time to get to our airbnb and found the process so easy we ended up using it almost every day we were in Washington.

There was a ray of light shining though as our contact at our state representative’s office let us know that they were able to reschedule our White House tour for Saturday.

After situating ourselves in the airBnB we decided to walk to the nearest metro subway stop (the Gaulludet station, red line), which was 15 minutes away.

By the time we got down to the National Mall we only had an hour before the museums closed, so we walked around the ground floor of the National Gallery before heading West to walk by the Washington Monument and up to the White House. From there we walked north for dinner at Whole Foods.