Lots and lots of Memorials

At the FDR Memorial...it was a very neat memorial you could walk through with a lot of waterfalls and quotes etched in the walls of stone.

This was at the Newseum. It was a museum detailing the news from first recorded news to current times. It included an exhibit of Pulitzer Prize winning pictures from the 1940's through today, there were some really moving pictures in there. This picture is outside the FBI exhibit...I was with the gangsters! They had the actual 10ft shack the unibomber lived in for 20 years in the middle of the woods and the back of the car the DC snipers shot out of during that incident a few years ago. There was also part of the Berlin wall that was neat and an exhibit from 9/11.

Picture of the Jefferson Memorial from across the Tidal Basin through the Cherry Blossoms...how artistic! Rebecca took this one!

Rebecca and I sitting with FDR at his memorial...we're BFFs.

I'm standing in Lincoln's Memorial with the Washington Monument and then further back is the Capitol Building. It all is set in an exact line...I thought it was a pretty neat picture.

So, this is a summary of the 200 pictures I have taken so far this trip. I have been very impressed with DC and think it is something everyone should come see at some point. Rebecca and I had another very full day today we got to the National Mall at 11am and got back to her apartment around 630pm! So I'm just going to list the things we did...

Washington Monument-we attempted to go inside, but all the tickets for the day were already gone when we stopped by at 11am!

WWII Memorial

Lincoln Memorial

Korean Memorial

Vietnam Memorial Wall

FDR Memorial

Jefferson Memorial and the Tidal Basin with the Cherry Blossoms

Museum of American History to see the American Flag exhibit

Newseum

Dinner at a restaurant in China Town called Match Box.

Metro back to the Apartment

Phew, my feet, legs, and back are not very happy right now after two 7 hour days of walking, but I absolutely loved it!! So there's the day in a nutshell. We're now watching A League of Their Own, which is so absolutely appropriate that it would be on TV right now. I think we went to see that together when we were about 8 and I swore I would be a softball player...yep, never played it! Anyway, off to bed early and headed to NYC tomorrow morning at 8:30am! I'll update again soon!