D.C. Day 3

Back to D.C.
On Thursday we returned to D.C. and again took the metro. This time though we got there around mid-morning so we almost didn't find a parking place. Thankfully we asked a lady who was walking by if she was leaving and she was, so we got a space.
We decided that this would be our last day in D.C. since we were all borderline sick and getting up early in order to get into D.C. early would just make us worse. Also, Friday (today) was supposed to be rainy and miserable. So we decided to let this be our last day in D.C.

Today we started with the National Museum of American History. This museum was unbelievable in the amount of stuff that they have. This was another museum where it would take forever to see and read everything. Some of what we saw included: the star spangled banner, a rebuilt house chronicling the people who lived there from the 1700's to the mid-1900's, we saw an exhibit with the different first ladies' dresses, we also saw artifacts from Abraham Lincoln's life like his top hat and wood chopping wedge, we saw an exhibit on all the major wars that America has been involved in, and we saw an amazing exhibit on American transportation. Get ready, because here come some pictures of that overwhelming museum.

This is a gunboat from the Revolutionary War that was sunk, but then raised back up.

This is a piece of the World Trade Center. This was a somber moment.

Next we went over to the National Gallery of Art. This was pretty neat. I'm not too much into art, but it was still neat. This was a big highlight for Mom though.

This is the only Da Vinci in the Western Hemisphere.

Next, we went over to the Air and Space Musuem for a quick stop at the gift shop that we hadn't been able to get to the other day. After that we went over to the National Archives. Seeing the originals of our founding documents was great. It was rather short, but still very much worth it. Of course, they didn't allow pictures so there is really only one picture that I want to share with you all from this place.

That's about it for Thursday. We really enjoyed our last day in D.C. and even though we didn't get to do everything that we had wanted to do I think that we still saw a ton and had a great time doing it.

Quote: Mom: "Are you swiping it on the right side?"... Dad: "... Nope, that would explain it." -- Us trying to run the card through the machine so we could get out of the parking garage... only after we had decided the machine didn't work, driven around to a different exit that only accepted long term cards, and returned to the machine we thought was broken, wondering how in the world we were going to get out of this place. :)