There are so many awesome free museums in Washington that its hard to decide which ones to visit, especially when you only have three days. Our place is pretty central so we could realistically visit all of them but its just too much knowledge for the time we have. We decided on the Holocaust museum for Monday (yesterday), with the Air and Space museum and National Portrait Gallery for today. We also threw in a visit to the White House and Capitol in between. Yesterday we started at the Holocaust museum at 10 and ended up leaving around 2, standing the entire time. At this point we were limited by the punishment we could inflict on our feet (being the white collar workers we are). The museum itself was well put together but as expected, really heavy. It left Jackie and I pretty shook up.
We found a food court for lunch and then wandered around what's called The Mall. This is the stretch of all the memorials and museums that runs through central Washington - saw the Jefferson memorial, Roosevelt memorial and Lincoln. Realised at this point that Americans really treat their past presidents like gods, totally the opposite of Australians. By the time we got home we were thoroughly destroyed having been on our feet the entire time and having walked many miles. Grabbed some groceries, crashed in our room for an hour or two and then grabbed burgers at a pub near our place called Stoneys, then home to bed.
This morning we decided on catching the bus as our feet were still hurting. Started at the Air and space museum at 10 but only lasted around 2 hours (I think we were all spaced out from Orlando). Next was the Portrait Gallery which Jackie and I both really enjoyed. Something which really strikes you about DC is the amazing neoclassical architecture that is everywhere, it really puts Sydney to shame that even the office buildings have architectural value. The other thing that gets you is the terrible coffee; god they can't make a decent coffee to save their lives, my instant in the room is better. We tried for cinnamon donuts and coffee at Dunkin donuts, it was gross.
Headed home after that, had a snack and then off the ballpark to watch the Washington Nationals take on The NY Mets. Tickets were $30 and they turned out to be great seats for what was a really exciting game. The Nationals came from behind in the final innings to win which topped off a great evening filled with Chilli Dogs, Pretzel's, singing take me to the ball game, cheering our American soldiers and other fun Americanisms. Caught the metro home and now we are off to bed.
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