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It was night, and behind us 18-story glass atrium and illuminated steel shone like a moon colossal. It was July 3, and my old college friend John and I were about to join a group of boaters in Occoquan, Virginia, at the end of the National Harbor Marina wharf to watch the Gaylord Hotel and Convention Center first July fireworks show. But first she wanted to take some pictures. As usual. John used his camera underwater, she had packed for our trip up the Potomac River as it was not certain that this type of veil involve as many failover and is wetting the sail in Sunfish College had the last time she and I were together on a sailboat. I understood. We tipped a lot.

But John did not understand. I do not want the failover. She got that now. No, she did not understand was the idea of National Harbor, where she struggled to put into perspective, despite the fact that we now had here since the end of June

"I mean it's cool in a crazy alternate universe kind of way, but I do not understand. What is it really, and why he is here?"

The big questions indeed. How to explain?

We were standing on the platform that John turned from the river to take photos of the thousands who had gathered along the coast in anticipation of National Harbor fireworks. Finally, she stopped and took a brochure from his pocket and began to read off his facts and figures. "National Harbor is built on 300 acres, including six hotels and around 20 buildings," she said. "When he finished, he will have 7.3 million square feet of mixed use community, 4,000 chambers hotel, 2,500 homes, 500,000 square feet of class office space (whatever that is), 1 million square feet of retail, dining and entertainment space and 10,000 parking spaces. "

"Yes," I said, "it will be bigger than the Mall of America, center of the world's largest shopping center. "
"So it's supposed to be a giant shopping mall?"
"Uh, I do not think so."

We walked slowly towards the end of the dock, the lights on the moon atrium changed from white to red.

"I think it's supposed to be a kind of multi-purpose, where you can spend your entire vacation or use as a base to visit Washington, DC, which is a kind of super-destination. Sidetrips Or you can do in Alexandria Mount Vernon or by boat. At least I think that's the idea. "I tried a bit of history. National Harbor developer Milton Peterson was not the first to think that this former gravel pit on Smoots Bay in the shadow of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and Beltway would be the perfect place for something really big. In the 1970s and 1980s there were several major projects for the property that ultimately failed. One of them was called the Bay of Americas and another PortAmerica. "This is great sounding too, like National Harbor," I said. "But this is the one that came through, not that it does not take an act of Congress." (In 1999, Congress passed legislation that exempted the National Harbor of the federal review and the environment protected against lawsuits, although there is no reason to believe any trial had taken place.)

We welcomed our new friends we'd met Occoquan-earlier in the day when they had cast in their fourth event on the weekend in July at National Harbor and watched the city fireworks from Alexandria to the arc silently into the dark sky jet through the River. I reminded John that the tree-lined boulevards and specially commissioned works of public art, hotels, restaurants, shops, taxis, tour boats, charters, low art, and even a kiosk the fortune teller, were all designed to give visitors plenty to see and do. "There are a few more things and they are just bigger than we are accustomed to, at least here. Hey, you live or.