Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Day 9

Today wasn’t as long as yesterday, however it seemed just as long due to the fact that Shara has a cold. I guess riding Metro can be hazardous to your health! Purell is quickly becoming a staple on our daily commutes. We started bright and early this morning with breakfast from Safeway again. Can’t beat that soymilk!

Then it was another Metro ride and off to the Washington Monument, we had tickets for 9:30. What an amazing monument. I have to admit I was more than apprehensive about going up to the top of the monument because of my fear of heights. But it was amazing! The elevator ride was only approximately 70 seconds long and the view was incredible. We could even see the Washington D.C. temple!

Our next stop was over to the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum. The National Museum of American History was closed for renovation, which was a disappointment for us because that museum houses a sunstone from the Nauvoo Temple. But we came to find out the National Air and Space Museum was housing a small exhibit from the American History Museum and the sunstone was included in that exhibit, so we weren’t disappointed after all!

On our way to our next stop we grabbed another hot dog from a street vendor, hopefully our last! We found a bench and sat down to enjoy (?) our lunch. No sooner had we taken our first bite than a little sparrow came begging for food, so Neal tossed him a morsel off his bun. Well, that brought a whole flock of sparrows and they had the biggest fight over those little bread morsels! It was a fun diversion for the bustle of the city.

Our next stop was at the Holocaust Museum. We had tickets for 1:00 but we arrived about an hour early and the lady said they were slow today so we could just trade our tickets in for tickets to get in right then. We spent about 2 hours here. It was interesting but we had mixed emotions about the exhibit.

Then it was a walk down to the WWII Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial and the Vietnam Memorial. By this time we were pretty spent so we made one last stop to visit Albert Einstein and get a picture of Shara on his lap! We tried to get a picture of Neal on his lap too, but a bunch of kids came and took over the monument before we could get it done. So we proceeded to catch our train home.

We ate dinner in the dining room on the main floor of our hotel tonight because Shara wasn’t feeling well. Had the best meatloaf and hamburger! Then it was a quick trip to Safeway to buy some cough syrup and Kleenexes. On our way back to the hotel we took a side trip down to the nightlife to get a few pictures. It’s to bed early tonight and no alarm tomorrow!

Side note to yesterday’s events: While we were having dinner at the Cheesecake Factory and group of about 6 people came and sat outside to eat. They had a pretty good order with drinks and entrées. They were having a pretty good time out there, when all of a sudden, when there were no servers outside, they all took off at a sprint. Everyone around them outside was just sitting there a gasp, as were Neal and I watching from inside! I had never seen someone actually skip out without paying before. I felt so sorry for the server.











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