Cratchits! Snow! Whom Shall Triumph???

Tonight


Snow
Likely
Lo 27 °F Sunday


Heavy
Snow

This is the latest weather from www.noaa.gov a lovely site where you merely type in your zip code and a forecast appears just for you- zounds!

Well, This doesn't bode well at all. The Cratchits are preparing for tomorrow's tour and we'll assess the snow mass early in the am on Sunday the 26th. If you are planning to come down for Sunday's tour, please call 301-588-9255 by 9:00 am a message about the weather and the tour shall be posted. In the mean time, stay warm, eat pudding and dream of sugar plums my dears. Brrrrrr!

Mrs.C and Tiny Tim

Dickensian Weather!

Saturday, the 11th in Washington City (Downtown DC)


Mostly
Sunny
Hi 47

Hurrah! says Tiny Tim. Sunny and forty seven degrees. Bundle up my dears. The Cratchits wear multiple layers on the Dickens Tour. And those little handwarmers they sell at the hardware store are also a lovely addition to your outerwear. This tour is so lively it will keep you warm And after the tour duck into one of the many toasty restaurants in Penn Quarter to warm up. Zatinya at 9th and G (right around the corner) has a fireplace which is wonderful. Poste, inside the Monaco Hotel is lovely and warm inside and the food is delightful. Cosi, our starting point, has a hot, hot bread oven that is lovely to look at. And right across the street from Cosi is the Giffords Hot Chocolate window. There is also Bistro d'OC on 10th Street.

Things to see after the tour: shopping is easy with the Downtown Holiday Mart at 8th and F (you can't miss it my dears!)

More anon,

Mrs. C

What the Dickens????

Yes it is too true, Dickens is about to hatch once again. December 11th, 18th and the 26th. All at noon, all accessible and all so very, very much fun!

Meet Mrs Cratchit at Cosi at 10th and E and witness the wonder that is "A Dickens of a tour, Charles Dickens in Washington"

Courage in November!!!

Well the leaves are falling and the long underwear is pulled out of the cedar chest and it's time for the November "Courage! The Civil War in Washington". We'll reenact the War era in Washington City, celebrate the new holiday created by Abraham Lincoln (guess which one??) and take home a holiday war era recipe. Meet us at 10th and E Streets NW (across from Giffords Hot chocolate window on E and the E Street Cinema) at 11:00 am on November 20th. It's a fine way to start the holiday season and one of our guests from the Ghost Story tour won a walk on role on Halloween night so that will be an exciting event for both of us! Www.historicstrolls.com for more details. No reservations needed. Above are special photos taken during a very unusual Courage tour in 2009 when we were invited into the Clara Barton's Apartment and the Office of Missing Soldiers at 437 7th street NW by Richard S. Lyons. I climbed the stairs (in a hoop skirt!) and viewed Clara Barton's Civil War Washington home for the first time and it was delightful and dusty!