Historic Trip Day 6

September 17th
Today is our first day in Washington DC.  We woke up and had the breakfast buffet at the hotel.  They had a great selection and then we were ready to walk down 6 to 7 blocks to the Washington Mall.  The Mall consists of all the monuments and the Smithsonian Museums.  We found out that everything is free and only a dollar to ride on the circular mall bus.  We also found out the Smithsonian museums don't open until 10:00 a.m.  so we had two hours to go to all the monuments.  We went to the Washington Monument first and also got tickets to ride to the top at around 3:00 p.m. today.  The tickets go fast for this event.  Here are some of the monuments we went to:

At around 10:00 a.m. we started touring the Smithsonian museums.  We started at the art museums and also an outdoor art exhibit where we also had lunch.  There was so much to see and you seriously could spend all day in just one museum.  I took a lot of pictures at the museums but I will just put some of my favorite pictures from the museums.  We did not get to see all of the art museum due to time. 

Here are pictures from the outside Art exhibit and also where we ate lunch.

After the Art exhibit we headed to the earth history museum.  We only had a little time because we would be going to the top of the Washington Memorial for our tour at 3:00 p.m.  I really liked the mineral and gems part in the museum.  The animals were pretty cool also.  Favorite pictures from this musuem:

Hope Diamond

 We made it to our tour at the Washington Monument at 3:00 p.m.  It was fantastic to see the view of Washington from the top.  I took a lot of pictures from the top.

Our last museum of the day was the Holocaust museum.  It was so sad but the museum was really well done.  I learned a lot about Hitler that actually was new on how he gained his power in the beginning.  He promised the people a lot of things and told them he would make it so they would never starve again.  He offered a lot of free things and got people hooked.  Those who opposed him were put to death.  It really showed how things can get bad quickly if you have the wrong person in charge. I did not really take many pictures due to tenderness of this museum.

We walked back the 6 to 7 blocks to our hotel and ended up eating at a Mcdonalds because it was on the way back.  We went to the hot tub and relaxed that evening.