Friday, June 13, 2008

We love Washington DC!

As we were in the area, we decided to pay a visit to George Dubbya. We had 2 days in Washington and were really impressed by all the amazing buildings, museums, monuments and the respect with which America's political, cultural and social history was displayed (and even more so because most sights were free of charge!). We went through the Library of Congress with beautiful ceilings, the Supreme Court which receives 10,000 appeals a year, saw the Capitol, walked "The Mall" (a mile of museums and galleries), went to the moving and very sad Holocaust Museum, explored the restaurant scene of Georgetown, tried to go up the Washington Monument (which was booked out for all of June), circled the White House (where squirrels were bounding across the lawn - seriously!), walked through Arlington Cemetery which holds 290,000 graves (and interrs 24 a day), caught up with Abraham Lincoln at night, and viewed the Vietnam Veterans and Korean War Memorials. Even though we didn't catch up with George, we really enjoyed DC and would love to go back to explore more of it one day.

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