**This post has so many pictures!!**
Day six was such a crazy busy and super fun day. We went to Washington D.C. It was seriously so much fun. We rode the metro (which was refreshing, because it was so clean) to the city and started right by the Capitol building. I never knew this, but the city was designed so that many of the streets point to The Capitol.
One cool thing about D.C. is all the museums they have. Another cool thing is, they are almost all free!
We went to the National Museum of the American Indian. I love just about anything to do with Native Americans. I love to see how they lived, and imagine what their life was like. We sped through, but we saw some really cool things.
Our next stop was the Air and Space Museum. We got to see many types of artifact from airplanes and space craft. Some of it is a copy of the original, and some of it is original. This place was HUGE! They have airplanes hanging from the ceiling! While we were in the museum, we stopped for lunch at McDonald's. Again, it was HUGE! It was the biggest McDonald's I have ever seen. You first ordered you food and paid for it, then took the receipt to another counter to collect your food! There were several hundred people there eating. Tyler and I wondered how much that one McDonald's makes each day.
We walked through the Sculpture Garden on our way to the Natural History Museum
Right outside the Natural History Museum. Petrified Wood, 200 Million years old.
They had everything you could thing of in this museum. Just when we though we had seen it all, we realized there was another wing or something that we had missed.
The Hope Diamond
The last museum we went to was the American History Museum. Both of our kids were asleep at this point!
We saw dresses worn by the First Ladies. They were all very classy looking pieces.
Dishes from different presidents in the White House
This was the last thing we got to see before the museum closed.
After leaving the museums, we walked and walked to different monuments.
The Washington Memorial. I guess you used to be able to go inside. On August 23, 2011, there was an earthquake in Virginia that caused damage to the memorial and now they don't allow people to go in.
The World War II Memorial
The Korean War Memorial
You can't see this one very well, but we were at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. It is a wall filled with 58,195 names from those who died or were unaccounted for during the war. Mace is standing next to the wall and you can see the Washington Memorial in the back ground.
The last place we stopped was the Lincoln Memorial. As I rode the elevator up, I found out that the other couple riding with me was from Midvale, UT. Cool to be around people from Utah, even if just for a few minutes. They were kind enough to take our picture!
We were there as the sun was setting, so we got some cool shots!
Our kids, we love them!
The back of the White House. The front was blocked off, due to David Cameron- the Prime Minister of England- being in town
We tried for a long time to find a place to eat after the sun had set. Everything closes so early!
Tyler and I had a blast seeing everything in D.C. We already want to go back and spend more time in each of the museums. There were also tons of people running. I think I would like to jog in that city! One thing we thought was pretty cool, was how clean the city is. We hardly saw any trash!
