Washington is one of those places that does not disappoint. The scale is just awesome, and all the more so considering it was built a couple hundred years ago.
The Capitol building is just gorgeous. We also saw the Lincoln Memorial; the Vietnam wall, where I got teary within seconds, and World War II monument, which did nothing for me; and the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, where we were really annoyed with people for taking pictures instead of just looking at the "charters of freedom." PEOPLE. Buy the souvenir copy and pay attention to the real thing--it will give you goosebumps.
We saw the original Star-Spangled Banner--and it's huge! We saw Dorothy's ruby slippers, Oscar the Grouch, Kermit the Frog, and Archie Bunker's couch. We saw Amelia Earhart's sexy red plane, and we tried to take a girl-power picture in front of it, but Charlie could not resist sneaking into the frame. (Plus Oscar was hanging on my body, and he's a guy.)
Note Charlie's Venom face paint. We happened upon a street fair where Charlie became Venom and Summer got a fabulous henna peacock on her hand.
In 19 hours (!) in the van, we saw license plates from 39 states plus DC and Quebec.
AND we saw my old friend Missy marry her sweetheart Pete at a gorgeous venue overlooking the Potomac.
Sadly, my camera died outside 'Arack Obama's house so I could not take pictures of the exciting new kitchen garden and bee hives. Not very convenient for my camera to die when, in the next two weeks, Summer will turn seven, march in the Memorial Day parade with her Brownie troop, and perform in a play she has been working on for two months in her after school drama program. Oh well. At least we got this great shot of Summer doing her part to prop up the nation in these difficult times:
How cool. Looks like you had a great time. Yeah you.
Posted by: Michelle | May 19, 2009 at 01:42 PM
PICTURESSSS!!!!! YAY PICTURESS!!! just over two weeks and i'll be home to get my fill of those kiddos in real life...but these pics'll get me through til then, i think!
love love love...
Posted by: Shaina | May 19, 2009 at 01:45 PM
I have a camera you can borrow for all of these events... I hope to be there for some of them too!
Posted by: ACM | May 25, 2009 at 01:05 AM