Memorial Day Weekend at the Capitol

 I’m so sorry I’m the worst blogger ever.  I’m not going to make excuses as to why it has taken me so long to post again, but I do have a lot to post.  Over Memorial Day weekend Shilo, Caskey, and I went to Washington D.C.  and I think it is an awesome city.  I feel like we barely even covered a fourth of the city.  There is so much history ad so much to do that we couldn’t cram it all into just three days (technically two and a half).  So, here is a list of what we did go see:

The White House

The Washington Monument (You can see this from almost anywhere in Washington).

The World War Two Memorial

The Vietnam Memorial

The Lincoln Memorial

The Reflection Pool  (currently under construction. Sad day).

The LDS Washington D.C. Temple 

The Watergate Hotel

The Pentagon

The Smithsonian

The Hope Diamond (not at the bottom of the ocean...  very misleading ending to a movie).

Julia Child’s Kitchen

 

The Original Jim Hensen Muppets

Dorothy’s Ruby Red Shoes

Michael Jackson’s Hat

Minnie Pearl’s Hat

This one I took a picture of just for my mom.  It’s Archie and Edith Bunker’s chairs from the sitcom “All in the Family.”

...And Abraham Lincoln’s Hat

We also went to Ford’s Theatre where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.  What I thought was interesting that I found out here was that Booth didn’t plan ahead to assassinate President LIncoln until that very morning when he was at Ford’s Theatre and found out that President LIncoln and his wife would be attending that night’s play.  

This is the home across the street from Ford's Theatre that President Lincoln was taken to and passed away there

This is the box that he was shot in and the stage that Booth jump down on and made his escape. 

Here we are bored waiting for a bus or in a line to get into some place.  For some reason we couldn’t stop singing “I’m just a bill...” and “the preamble.”  Good old School House Rock.

We went on a tour of the monuments at night so here are pictures of those all lit up

We also went to see the Constitution of the United States of America and The Bill of Rights, but we weren’t allowed to take pictures of those, and we went through the international spy museum.  Now I think everyone is a spy walking around with little microphones and bombs in their pockets.  All in all this was a really fun vacation.  I would definitely go back to Washington, D.C. just to go to more museums and to more monuments.  I think it could take days to get everything in that you wanted to.