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Birthday Weekend: Wynton Marsalis in Concert

To celebrate my birthday, Donna recently took me to an overnight getaway in Washington, D.C. to see a concert at the Kennedy Center and get together with a friend of hers from high school. We stayed at the Georgetown Inn , where we have stayed frequently over the years for similar getaways. In 2018, we stayed there for a grand wedding of the daughter of relatives of Donna. During that trip, a week after Donna suffered a broken shoulder from a fall, we also took in an Eagles concert at Nationals Park. Most recently, we stayed there a couple years ago to attend a National Symphony concert featuring Beethoven’s Seventh symphony. This time, the concert was the incomparable Wynton Marsalis and his Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra , a 16-piece ensemble. We were able to check in to the hotel early. We got settled in our room and decided to grab an early lunch somewhere. It was Sunday and we didn’t think through the ramifications of the popularity of Sunday brunch in D.C. After some failed