Visitng Washington DC: Day 2

August 5, 2004 by Dennis Baker 

Destination DC ’04 Day 2 (Tues., July 27th)

We decided to go up North into DC. Karen bought a book of the the “Top Ten” of different things on DC. With this she planned what to see. Our first stop was to go by the Capitol. As we walked by there was alot of construction going on. So much so it was hard to take a picture from the poisition we were at. While walking to our next destination we run into the Library of Congress and decided to check it out.

The only thing I knew about the Library of Congress was that you could not check a book out. (Later I find out if you are a reseacher you can check things out) It is also a musuem that at that time had four different showings going on. We saw the show that covered American life. It had artifacts from people that were involved in major events in American history.

Our next stop was the Folger Shakespeare Library. Karen thought the actor would enjoy a trounse through the ode to the English writer. We then went to the Smithsonian and realized it was more then one Musuem. No one told us. We went through the Old Castle and got information on all the Musuems. We decided it would be too much for us to see all of them so we went to the National Gallery of Art (not offically part of the Smithsonian).

Afterwards we went downtown to see the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. David Powell was Karen’s best friend’s step-father. He was a sheriff that died in the line of duty. The office is a couple of blocks away from the actual site and to our surpirse we saw pictures they had of him in the case with pictures of other officers killed in action. It was pretty special to see his name up with all the others.

Later that evening after a much needed rest at the hotel we decided to go back into town to see the White House at night. It was cool it to see it lit up in person. It started to rain on us pretty hard as we walked around to see the other side where the fountain was. I wanted to try to find Ford’s Theatre, but we could not seem to find it as it was getting late. We made the last subway out of town, wet, but having a good second day over all.

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