Journey vs. Destination

This covers only Friday and Saturday.

Air and Space Museum (Udvar-Hazy Center, near Dulles Airport)

• Space shuttle Discover ( awesome )
• Enola Gay
• Concord
• SQ-71 with Skunkworks symbol on tail
• Assorted airplanes, satellites, helicopters, missiles, and things that really didn’t look like they should have flown

Pizza Pi Pizzeria

Metro Center’s huge cavernous multi-level multi-line subway station

National Mall

Washington Monument (closed)

World War II memorial

Reflecting Pool (drained)

Constitution Garden Pond (half drained, smelling of swamp)

The Ellipse (President’s Park, flag football game)

White House South Lawn (busloads of tourists getting pictures of other tourists’ backs)

National Christmas Tree (mostly dead)

William Tecumesh Sherman Statue

Smithsonian Natural History Museum

• Big elephant display in the rotunda
• Triceratops (!! I love Tris!!)
• Assorted other dinosaur bones
• Fossilized plants (a lot of them)
• Tiny, tiny horse
• Giant ground sloth (giant!!!)
• Assorted other mammals
• Hope Diamond
• Rocks from space
• Assorted other rocks
• Assorted other gems (Heard in the jewelry area, small child “Is this all treasure?”)
• Insect zoo (this was strangely neat, I held a lovely caterpillar and we saw butterfly hatchery)
• Icky mummies

National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden

American Portrait Museum

• Art of the Video Game (enh)
• One neat stained glass window
• Lots and lots of portraits. Really, lots. Winthrop was funny looking.

Spy museum gift shop

Cowgirl Creamery

Dinner with Stacey Banks at Ella’s Pizza and Pasta

Franklin Park*

White House North Lawn*

Sunday morning bells of the Church of Epiphany*

 

*E only.

 

And now we are off to add to this list… Which doesn’t cover the architecture we’ve seen, a whole ‘nother post.