The Other Washington

Daryl wanted to go to the Glenn Beck thing last month at the Lincoln Memorial, so about six months ago we started planning on visiting Washington D.C. at the end of the August. We were there about a week, and really enjoyed it despite the fact that we were melting from the heat and humidity. Unfortunately a week is not enough time to see even half of all there is to see. We didn't see the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence, and we walked right by the Hope Diamond. We did get to have tours of the Library of Congress, the White House (where we saw the first dog Bo!), the Captial, and the Pentagon. Of all the official tours we took we really enjoyed the Pentagon tour the best. Daryl had mixed feelings about the Spy Museum. It was the one place Daryl wanted to go that he didn't get to go to last time he went to Washington D.C. Well here's a few pictures of the very many we took on our visit.
This is the balcony at Ford's Theatre where President Lincoln was assassinated. No one really goes in the actual box except for the custodians.
A rare picture of us together. We usually forget to take a picture of both of us together while we are on vacation. In this picture we were at the top of the Washington memorial. I had to show up an hour and a half before tickets were handed out to get them, so this is something that most people that visit don't get to do because they only hand out a couple hundred tickets a day.
This is a very patriotic cat who came to visit the Lincoln Memorial early in the morning before the Glenn Beck rally on Saturday.
This was the view from our hotel room in the Donovan House. We never did find out who the statute was of, but the building across the way is a church. We enjoyed our ultra modern hotel. It had dark purple carpeting and matching walls. Our shower was made of of plastic and we felt like we were going to be beamed up by Scotty when we were in there.

All in all we really enjoyed our trip and we both hope we can go and visit D.C. again in the future.