D.C. was beautiful. It is thick with charm with the New England-style houses and tree-lined streets and highways. We did all the touristy sight-seeing, and visited my cousin Trevor's family that lives in D.C. whom we haven't seen in a long time.
Arlington National Cemetery. I really loved this. Seeing all the grave stones that cover 624 acres hill top to hill top, I felt such gratitude for our service men and women who fight and lose their lives defending our great country.
Amphitheater where they hold the services.
The Tomb of the Unknowns.
Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. We visited the one in D.C. and the extension of the museum in Chantilly, VA that was right next to our hotel about 50 minutes out of D.C. We spent 5-6 hours of our trip in these buildings - Brad really loves this stuff.
This is an original space suit that has walked on the moon - worn by one of the astronauts in one of the Apollo missions. It still has moon dust on the boots!
I liked the extension of the museum in VA a lot more - they had some awesome planes and others on display:
The Enola Gay that dropped the first A-bomb on Hiroshima.
Several WWII planes.
The SR-71 Blackbird that is in the Transformers 3 movie (this hangar is where they filmed part of the movie).
A bunch of Boeing planes.
The space shuttle Enterprise and a bunch of the pods they used to use to bring the astronauts back to earth.
There was a whole display on applications satellites which is what Brad used to work on in El Segundo, CA. Brad was in heaven. He loves this stuff.
The Capitol Building.
The Library of Congress that houses Thomas Jefferson's personal book collection.
The International Spy Museum. We couldn't take pictures inside, but it was really cool.
The White House.
And the Mall - a bunch of the monuments and memorials in the park across from the White House: Washington, Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., FDR, Jefferson; Vietnam War, Korean War, etc.
The Holocaust Memorial Museum.
And I can't not document our run-in with the Occupy D.C. protesters. Even though the first picture looks like there were tons of them, there were about 20 people walking for the protest. 20 people had 8 motorcycle escort cops and they shut down the whole left side of the street. Pretty lame.
We had a really great time.
2 comments:
Sounds fun and wonderful.
How cool to be able to do that stuff! And how nice without kids- sort of a second honeymoon! :). Sooo excited to see you guys in a couple of weeks!!
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