This past Saturday I went to the Gaylord Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, MD.

The name speaks for itself......it is a huge convention center inside a resort-like hotel. Outside the convention center/hotel there are many up-scale shops, a waterfall and a pier with boats and a dock where you can catch a boat to take you on a ride around the Potomac River, where you can see the view of the Capitol City and it's renowned monuments and attractions.

Gaylord National will be the largest combined hotel and convention center on the Eastern Seaboard upon it's completion. It has beautiful landscaping and I couldn't help posing in front of one of the lovely statues.

My cousin, Michelle, and I didn't stay at the hotel this weekend but after going in and having a tour, we are already made plans to stay at this grand place.