Washington DC - memorials, Lincoln, police and rain.
Washington DC was a great place, clean, friendly, free and cultural. I started my first afternoon in DC by walking around and discovering the area. I found the white house (really propper white), the capitol building, and the washington monument. A nice walk and good nights sleep gave me plenty of energy for the next day.
Today it rained, alot. But I walked regardless and felt the wet and was reminded of home. First stop was the Lincoln memorial. A truly iconic place, and it was worth the walk. From here I walked to the nearby and not so nearby Viet war, Washington and Jefferson memorial. Each one was hugely differenent and poignant. To escape the ever increasing hard rain I ran to the WDCs' natural history museum. Loads of great exhibits; varying from African life, global warming, water life, mamals, china (as in pottery), rocks and evolution. In the water life area I was able to collect shark teeth. I spent a good time scraping away at the few trays of bottom of the ocean sediment. After here I went to the Fords Theater, where Lincoln was assassinated. This was a great little museum, chronologicaling his and the people around hims' life. I got to see where he sat, the gun and many intriguing family photos and stories.
The next day I headed to the hirshhorn sculpture garden and gallery; a cool dougnut shapped biulding, holding art by lichtenstein, Ayyson Shortz, Anne Truitt and many more. This was agreat little gallery holding many interesting works. Form here I went and explored China town. It was relativly small compared to the likes of San Fran and New York, but it still had its charm. Her
e I had lunch, in an award winning chinese restaurant. I had a mixture of fish on a platter of greens. I spent the rest of my afternoon looking around china town, looking for a market that was closed and revisting the white house. I then spent the night packing my bag for the morning bus trip to my last and final destination, New York.Washington was a great city, clean and tidy, friendly people and lots of free things to do, I look forward to returning someday.
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