To finish off Day 9....(we had a very big day;)....after our tour we walked from the capital to the National Archives to the White House and eventually the Lincoln Memorial.
This is a cool pic from the Capital to the monument.
This is the Supreme Court that is right across the street from the Capital.
Travis had to take a pic of this.....a port a potty was being raised up by the Supreme Court. I guess they have too much B.S. in there;)
They had some neat stuff in there!! I love history!!! We also got to see the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights. There were so many people there so we only got a couple of pics and they had to be no flash. They are really faded now!
Next stop was the monument!! Jordyn wanted to get down and run by this point so Trav let her roam a bit! We were getting pretty tired by now. These buildings all look like they should be pretty close together (which they kinda are) but it's pretty long by foot. And unfortunately our blisters were letting themselves be known at this point;)
Travis had to take a pic of this.....a port a potty was being raised up by the Supreme Court. I guess they have too much B.S. in there;)
This is the National Archives. We actually got there just in time to see all the stuff before they closed. I just loved all the architecture!! Why can't we still build buildings that look like these!! I love it.
They had some neat stuff in there!! I love history!!! We also got to see the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights. There were so many people there so we only got a couple of pics and they had to be no flash. They are really faded now!
Pretty cool stuff!!
Our next stop was the White House. We saw the National Treasury on the way there with Alexander Hamilton's statue out front. I wish we had time to go inside!
Our next stop was the White House. We saw the National Treasury on the way there with Alexander Hamilton's statue out front. I wish we had time to go inside!
Another squirrel!!! I miss those dang squirrels everywhere! And so do the girls!
The White House!!
Next stop was the monument!! Jordyn wanted to get down and run by this point so Trav let her roam a bit! We were getting pretty tired by now. These buildings all look like they should be pretty close together (which they kinda are) but it's pretty long by foot. And unfortunately our blisters were letting themselves be known at this point;)
The monument! If you look closely, you can tell that the bottom portion of it is a different color than the top. I guess they ran out of money and stopped construction on it. It took 30 years before Congress gave the money needed to finish it. When they finally started construction again, it was a different shade of stone. You can tell where they stopped and started again by this difference.
The Lincoln Memorial looking from the Monument. Again...check out the dead grass;(
The Lincoln Memorial looking from the Monument. Again...check out the dead grass;(
Almost there.....walking....always walking. We were pretty weary at this point but this was the last stop of the night and we were determined to see it. We couldn't be this close and not see it;)
Monument at twilight.
Lincoln statue
Monument at night from the steps of the Memorial.
Monument at twilight.
Lincoln statue
Monument at night from the steps of the Memorial.
We actually got to the Monument and Memorial at the perfect time. We got to see them in the daylight and then gradually as it got dark. I love the pics that we got!! Unfortunately, we had to walk all the way back past the monument and halfway back to the capital to get back to the metro!! We were so happy to get to the station only to have to wait forever for a train!! I guess a baseball game just let out and the trains were slow!!! Ugh!! We were so happy to get on it and get moving toward our beds. It was a very long day but we got to see soooo much!! It was great!!
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It was a long day. The girls were great. You forgot to mention all of the duck poop all around the reflective pond. It certainly made a beautiful place not so pretty. I think that had to our longest walking day of all. We also had to walk from the metro to our hotel because we were too late for the van to pick us up. We were all dragging. But again, it was an amazing day!
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