Washington DC (Trip One)

We started with the Smithsonian Museums. They were all incredible. I kept saying...wait, so this is the real one? ...not like a replica? this is it...for real?

The first one we visited was the Art one. They let you walk right up to the paintings. You could see every brush stroke and so many of the pieces were gigantic. They had it sectioned off by area, such as French, Latin, British etc. From the picture you can see a little bit of the dept and the interconnectedness of each room. This place was Huge. They also had bajillion year old sculptures everywhere...no ropes. Beautiful gardens in each wing that people sat and read in. This was my favorite one by far. Unreal.
Me in front of the Art Museum.
The white house! Later on in the day they shut down a road that Riley and I were walking by, shortly after about 7 cop cars were escorting 5 blacked out suburbans. Hello Barack.

This is in the Museum of Natural History. In our opinion the coolest part was seeing every possible animals skeleton.

This is what I look like as a Homo floresiensis. aka early human. Again done at the natural history museum.

This is at the Washington Monument. Tickets to go in side and to the top are first come first serve at 8 am. When we visited D.C. for the second time, a lady randomly gave Riley a ticket to go. He had be dying to go so it was perfect.

Lincoln. The Lincoln Memorial was SO much cooler than I imagined. The feeling surrounding it was reverence and Lincoln was so crazy huge and beautiful. I really can't begin to describe how cool it was, but maybe if anyone else has gone you can back me up? Right above Lincoln's head is "In this Temple as in the Hearts of the people for whom he saved the Union the memory of Abraham Lincoln is Enshrined Forever." Riley pointed out that if we all died out and were being studied by others, they would defiantly think that Lincoln was some sort of God due to that Memorial.