Journey vs. Destination

Tomorrow we leave DC so we needed to cram everything that we could. The Library of Congress was closed which is ok because they don’t carry my book. (Hmph!!) We walked by the LOC but saw a lot more than that:

Capitol South Metro station

Capitol Hill

• Peace monument
• Grant monument
• Garfield monument
• The other reflecting pool (this one with water!)

US Botanic Garden and Conservatory

National Air and Space Museum

• Space Ship One
• Spirit of St. Louis
• Apollo 11 return capsule
• Touched a moon rock!
• Wright flyer
• Space lab twin
• There were so many amazing aircraft, i can’t begin to list them.

L’Enfant Plaza Metro station

National Museum American History (briefly, it was very crowded)

• Instruments (small exhibit! Found more instruments near the lobby but still oddly small)
• 1933 exhibit

National Gallery of Art

• Nineteenth century French (including impressionists)
• Dutch etchings
• Italian religious paintings (old, ole triptychs)
• Amazing rotunda and indoor fountain
• Rembrandt
• Rodin and Degas sculptures

Oh, and when we walked by the Butterfly Garden today, I realized we walked through it yesterday lunch. This is not the Butterfly Habitat, that was something else that we opted not to do.

Oh, and since I mentioned dinners, tonight we got takeout from Carmine’s, It was a lot of pasta pomodoro. And a fantastic champagne cocktail.

(C, you said you didn’t want to know so stop reading. Everyone else can scroll down.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Both days I clocked in over 20k steps and more than 9 miles a day. My feet (at least) look forward to a short walk in the morning and then getting in the car to go to Hartford, Connecticut.