(I've got to get this trip posted, so I can move onto our Europe trip... Patience please)
I grabbed breakfast from McDonald's and brought it back to our hotel room. This is our hotel in the morning light.
We're a big fan of taking public transport whenever we're somewhere that will allow it.
We took pictures of the Washington Monument whenever we saw it.
Our first stop was the Holocaust Museum.
Lyla decided to join for a picture.
We first visited the chapel.
It was a nice quiet spot to reflect on the horrors of mankind.
A couple of the quotes on the wall of the chapel.
Next stop was the Jefferson Memorial, but we had to make our way around the Tidal Basin.
This was my first time visiting the Jefferson Memorial. We didn't visit it last September and when I visited Washington DC with my family when I was younger we didn't make it there either. I remember that we stopped out in front of the memorial as the sun was going down so that my mom could run in and see the memorial, but none of the kids got out. I was happy to finally make my way inside.
Ada and the Washington Monument.
Big Tom.
I quite liked the quotes around the rotunda.
The man, the myth, the legend who slept with his slave.
Our next stop was the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. Eleanor stands guarding the entrance.
Franklin and his Scottish Terrier Fala.
Ada and (drum roll please) the Washington Monument.
Next stop was the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
Resting with Rosa.
Ada with Dorothy's ruby slippers.
The golden spike. On loan from Stanford University.
Our hotel was just two blocks from Ford's Theatre. We sadly didn't make it in there, but we had to get a picture nonetheless.
Dinner tonight was at Pi Pizzeria. We went for their deep dish pizza with a cornmeal crust.
And because we knew the girls would not go for that pizza they got a plain cheese.
Ada.
Al.
Tomorrow we visit an art museum and make it to a baseball game.
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