Touring the Commandant's Home

On March 5 the Golf Company spouses got the opportunity to tour the Commandant of the Marine Corps's house. This tour was so interesting! There is so much history there! Mrs. Amos met us at the door. She is so sweet and hilarious! The house is 3 stories tall and each story is about the square footage of a normal sized house. Most of the furniture and decorations are donated by previous Commandants and/or their families.

There are twin couches on the first floor. One is in the living room and one is in the music room. The Sergeant giving the tour waited until some people sat on one to tell the story about them. Apparently, the 4th Commandant of the Marine Corps, Archibald Henderson, died on one and one of his grandchildren was born on the other. I don't think the girls could get up quick enough! Hahaha!

Couch in the living room

Couch in the music room

After the tour we got to take our picture with Mrs. Amos

Then we went outside and took a group photo with Mrs. Amos and Chesty XIII

Chesty was in his own little world the whole time.

After the tour, we went to Molly Malone's for lunch and then some of us went to Hello Cupcake and bought some cupcakes to take home. They were tasty!

I'll add a few more pictures of the Commandant's house tour:

These things belonged to John Philip Sousa. He also played on the piano these are sitting on.





Don't touch this lamp if you ever go to the Commandant's house! It is worth too much money to be able to replace it!

Rug you see when you walk into the house

There are chandeliers in the bathrooms!

This is a tablecloth that they had important people sign when they came to visit and then embroidered over their name and they framed the cloth. You can't take flash photography of this.

They rolled out the red carpet for us! ;-)