Day 17

We spent the day in Washington DC, and saw lots of stuff!

We took the metro into town around 11:00 am. "Red Line, Shady Grove!" It was pretty fun.

We had expected the weather to be a lot more rainy, and were planning to visit indoor things like the museums, but it was dryer than we had hoped, so we got to see lots of things.

First we saw the Lincoln memorial, which was beautiful and moving, especially considering yesterday's trip to Gettysburg.

The Vietnam memorial was really cool, as was the Korean. Mom found a picture on the wall of the Korean memorial that almost looks like her dad.

Then we took a lo-o-ong walk around the Tidal Basin past the FDR memorial to the Jefferson memorial. Again, we saw that Thomas was taller than Dad. We were also pleasantly surprised to see how many times God was mentioned in the quotes around the walls.

That afternoon, we visited the Air and Space museum till it closed (about an hour) but didn't see everything. We did get to see some pretty cool stuff, though. The Spirit of St. Louis, old space ships, and the Wright brothers' plane.

Then, when the museum closed, we went to the National Archives. We got to see the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. The exhibits that went along with that were pretty neat, too.

After all that, we took the train back and GOT SOME DINNER! That was good stuff. :)

-Rebekah