First we went to the Capital building. We only got to walk around it and talk about it as you can't go in it any longer unless you are accompanied by a staff member. We then went to the Library of Congress.. again could only "see" it couldn't go in. The same with our next stop at the Supreme Court. We did see a couple of protesters on the supreme court steps.
Then we went to Fords Theatre BUT it is presently closed as the balcony and such are unstable. So we also only "saw" the outside of it. We did go in the Petersen house across the road. The Petersen house is where the president was taken after being shot and ended up passing away. They used to have the actual bed in there still and up until last year they had the actual pillow with the blood stain still on it, but now they have been moved to a museum in Chicago or something. How rude. we did walk through it though.
Just as a point of funniness in my brain I included a picture of a bistro near the petersen house that had a beware of dog sign in the window... oh that's welcoming. what the heck!!!???
Next we went to the Holocaust Museum. It was so sad it wasn't funny! It is just unbelievable to me that one person can have that much power. Of course its harder for me to believe that the same concept is still going on in some parts of the world.
We then went to the Smithsonian Air and Space museum, which was very cool. I swear they have the worlds largest McDonalds there as that is where we had lunch. We also didn't have nearly enough time to see everything in there before it was time to leave.
We walked to the National Archives and cut through a sculpture garden on the way. It was "interesting". I just really don't get some things that are art.
The National Archives. the line was HUGE and there were so many people already in the Rotunda that they had to stop the line until it cleared out some. So we stood in line for about 45 minutes before we even moved a foot. It was interesting to see the documents and to think that how long ago they were written. we didn't see anything else in the archives building except the gift shop because we were behind schedule after the wait.
Next we went to the Museum of Natural History. Which I thought was awesome! The really bad thing was that it took us so long at the archives that we had almost no time at this museum and I could have taken hours in there. Sad. but we had a reservation for dinner we had to keep so we had to cut it way to short. The picture on the slideshow is of red beryl from Utah :-) we came clear to D.C. to see Utah rock!
we then walked from the museum to dinner at California Tortilla, which was very good. I bought some Dave's Insanity Hot Sauce there to bring home because it was quite tasty. REALLY REALLY hot but good. I think the little bottle will probably last 2 years because you use so little at a time!
After dinner we went across the road and took the subway back almost to our Hotel where Roger our lovely bus driver picked us up and took us the rest of the way. Our driver is AWESOME! I have no idea how he fits that mammoth bus in some of those places but he does.
anyhow, that was our day 3. now the slideshow
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