November 07, 2005
Thursday was an official wedding prep day, so we didn't do any sightseeing. Our next excursion was into DC to see, yes, you guessed it, the bums.
No, I'm kidding. I was scared of the bums, and kept a careful eye out for them. I'm sorry, maybe that's not politically correct or whatever, but guys in trenchcoats with crazy eyes that approach my car scare me. Sue me. And the fact that you have to pay them not to bust into your car when you leave really hacks me off.
Anyway.
We went to the National Mall, which is not the headquarters for Gap and the Yankee Candle Factory. (I'll admit, I thought the National Mall was an actual mall at first. Please don't tell anybody that, though, because it's embarassing.) Anyway, it's the long strip in front of the Capitol that has tons of monuments and museums.
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Okay, here's the Washington Monument. It's really, really tall. Bet you didn't realize that before you saw this picture:
It was also really, really far away from where we parked. So I had a little sitsie downsie when we finally got there:
And Patrick took the opportunity to sketch the Lincoln Memorial, which was pretty cool from that distance:
We popped into the Smithsonian for some dinosaur action:
And at the Tidal Basin near the Jefferson Memorial, I propped up this cherry tree, which was in danger of falling at any moment. Okay, not true. I was the one in danger of falling over after all that walking. The trees were incredible, though:
The FDR Memorial was my favorite. You walk through this massive display with fountains, and statues and just a WHOLE bunch of stuff, and you eventually end up at this wall. Truly, too cool:
I don't know what it all meant, if we'd had more time I would have studied it more. It was a fantastic piece of art:
