We walked to the train station in not much more than a drizzle. We took the Metro back to the Smithsonian station. First stop, the Air & Space Museum.
Besides seeing some really cool stuff, the boys were thrilled to buy astronaut ice cream!
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| Soviet Missile |
The walk to the capitol was very pleasant...
Apparently, everyone else in DC had the same idea. I've never seen one of those museums so packed. Probably partly because of the rain, partly because it was a lot of school groups hitting the museums one last time before traveling home, partly becaues people knew if the government shut-down happened later that night, the Smithsonians would be closed the next day.
So our visit to the American History museum was brief, but we got to see some cool things. Most of these are pop culture pics.
After the museum, we got to do something that was the highlight of our entire trip. Lisa took us on a private tour of the Pentagon! We were there for probably 2 hours and it was fascinating. Unfortunately, no pictures allowed, but trust me - it was awesome!
We went back to Tim & Lisa's and waited for Lisa to get home from work. Then we all hopped on the Metro and headed to Ben's Chili Bowl for dinner - a restaurant made famous by Bill Cosby, it's also been visited by tons of other celebrities. Even President Obama stopped in to eat just a couple of weeks before his inauguration. A greasy spoon joint for sure, but it was yummy junk food!
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| Tim & Daniel on the Metro |
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| If you ever go, be sure to order a Chili Half Smoke |
3 comments:
Yall had an awesome trip!! So many good memories for all 4 of you!!
Cool to see your trip as I'll be doing just about the same trip in a much shorter time frame in July with Sonny Boy. I'm wondering if I've lost my mind or not?
It's so weird that we were JUST there! Too bad we couldn't have met up again! :)
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