DC Has A Ghetto? Thanks Mapquest!

Drew and I are in DC. We left Friday March 6. It was a long drive, 12.5 hours to be exact. It wasn't supposed to take us that long, but we had issues. Drew went to Mapquest to get directions. Easy enough right? Yeah, right. We have had issues with Mapquest in the past. We went to Chicago to go to IKEA. We drove around for a while completely lost. We decided to look at our directions for IKEA instead of our hotel, only to find out our hotel and IKEA were pretty much next to each other. Nice!

So back to DC. We are on the freeway looking for our exit. We pass what we now know is our exit and proceed to keep driving South. We drive for a while and end up in the GHETTO!! I'm not kidding. If you would have looked up Ghetto in the dictionary, we would have been in the definition. We were ghetto lost for about two hours. It was interesting. We finally asked for directions to get back to the freeway. We found the freeway and thought we were doing good. Not so much. We stopped again for directions and sort of got where we were going.
After driving around under our new directions, we decided to call the hotel. The first woman we talked to was convinced we were in the "area" of where the hotel was. She was wrong.
We called the hotal back again and Drew insisted the woman we were talking to not hang up with us until we were in the driveway of the hotel. Considering we had a good couple of miles to go in DC traffic, she didn't stay on the phone with us, but was nice enough to let us call her back.

We did finally find where we had to be. It was painful getting here. We spent an additional 4 hours driving around, getting lost. The hotel wasn't (isn't) what we expected. I'll dedicate a whole blog to our hotel! It'll be worth the wait!