{"id":301,"date":"2012-04-29T06:30:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T13:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/?p=301"},"modified":"2012-04-29T16:06:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T23:06:22","slug":"some-things-we-did-in-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/2012\/04\/some-things-we-did-in-washington-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Some things we did in Washington DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This covers only Friday and Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Air and Space Museum (Udvar-Hazy Center, near Dulles Airport)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Space shuttle Discover (<musical voice=\"\"> awesome )<\/musical><\/li>\n<li>Enola Gay<\/li>\n<li>Concord<\/li>\n<li>SQ-71 with Skunkworks symbol on tail<\/li>\n<li>Assorted airplanes, satellites, helicopters, missiles, and things that really didn&#8217;t look like they should have flown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pizza Pi Pizzeria<\/p>\n<p>Metro Center&#8217;s huge cavernous multi-level multi-line subway station<\/p>\n<p>National Mall<\/p>\n<p>Washington Monument (closed)<\/p>\n<p>World War II memorial<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting Pool (drained)<\/p>\n<p>Constitution Garden Pond (half drained, smelling of swamp)<\/p>\n<p>The Ellipse (President&#8217;s Park, flag football game)<\/p>\n<p>White House South Lawn (busloads of tourists getting pictures of other tourists&#8217; backs)<\/p>\n<p>National Christmas Tree (mostly dead)<\/p>\n<p>William Tecumesh Sherman Statue<\/p>\n<p>Smithsonian Natural History Museum<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Big elephant display in the rotunda<\/li>\n<li>Triceratops (!! 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