Washington DC

After spending a few days with Ben and Alyse, we took a train from Richmond up to Washington DC.

 

Once getting to the train station, we decided to walk to our hotel, which was about a mile and a half away.  (We could have taken the metro one stop and then been about 0.7 miles away, but we didn't think that was worth it).  Turns out that our hotel had a shuttle that went to and from the metro station, which we used for every other trip.  After a few wrong turns combined with some hot and humid weather, we finally arrived at our hotel.  Over the next few days, we enjoyed many of the different sites as we took the metro around DC.

 

The Botanical Gardens (Sarah in the jungle)

 

The Smithsonian - American History, Natural History and Air and Space Museums 

  

  

 

 The U.S. Capitol

  

 

The Library of Congress

  

 

  

 (A Gutenberg Bible and Thomas Jefferson's books in the Library of Congress)

The Supreme Court

 

The White House

  

 

Seeing money being printed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing

(You can't take pictures beyond a certain point)

 

 Watching a short play about Lincoln's Assassination at Ford's Theater 

  

Arlington National Cemetery and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

  

 

 World War II Memorial

  

 

 Vietnam War Memorial

 

 Korean War Memorial

 

National Mall

 

Washington Monument

  

 Lincoln Memorial

 

  

 

 

 Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial

 

 

George Mason Memorial

 

 Thomas Jefferson Memorial

  

 

National Zoo

 

  

 

   

  

 

Washington DC Temple

  

Visiting with Sarah's cousin Trevor Slezak and his wife Jessi and their kids, Ella (pictured) and Jake.

 

Jessi suspected that Sarah was pregnant and was excited when we told them right before we left.

It was an adventure filled time while we were in Washington DC and we enjoyed everything that we were able to see.