Visiting Washington DC: Day 3

August 31, 2004 by Dennis Baker 

Destination DC ’04 Day 3 (Wed., July 27th)

This was the memorial day. We arrived at Washington Memorial at about 7:30am to wait in line for tickets. The ticket booth open at 9am so we had time to wait. Yes, it was humid that early. The line was not that long and the time seemed to go about pretty fast. While in line I heard a man talking about how he went on the White House tour that was about a 15 minute u-turn through the east wing. He mentioned to a lady from Minnesota (Yes we are all tourists in DC) that the U.S. Capitol tour was much better. I looked over to Karen noting that I did not know we cold take a tour of the Capitol.

We got our tickets for 10:30 and went to track down breakfast. A note to any future DC visitors we had to walk about six-seven block to the closest Starbucks for breakfast as there were no restaurants in the area. If you think Starbucks is everywhere go to DC and you will realize they are not. The view on top of the Washington Memorial was amazing. The views down the mall to the Capitol and the view down to the Lincoln Memorial was my favorite. On the way down the elevator would slow down so we could see the inside of the memorial. Each state donated a stone, the most expensive was Alaska and the cheapest was Florida. They made their stone out of Formica.

Then it was the long hike to see the World War Two Memorial as well as the Lincoln, Vietnam, and Nurses Memorial. They were all beautiful. It was amazing to see the magnitude of each one. It was hard to take it all in because there was so much. It was awesome to walk down the pool to the Lincoln Memorial. It reminded me of the pictures from U.S. History class. It was really cool to be there. The only problem is the closest Metro station to the Lincoln Memorial was at the Smithsonian about a mile or two away. We decided to walk up to Foggy Bottom which was about the same distance. We just wanted to say we had been to Foggy Bottom.

Being our anniversary that evening we went back to Old Town Alexandria to the Fish Market. It has an outdoor seating area on a small balcony outlooking the street. It was small and quaint, perfect for the romantic evening. Afterwards we had ice cream across the street and did some souvenir shopping for friends and family. The wierdest gift we found was a magnet that said “Virginia is for Lovers”. I guess that was Virginia’s advertising slogan a view years back.

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