Mark and Amanda: Washington DC

At the end of September we spent a week out in Baltimore/Washington DC. We stayed with one of Mark’s good friends, Ty, from high school and his cool family. They were great hosts and made sure we didn’t get lost. Here is an overview of all the stuff we did.

Monday:

Bureau of Printing and Engraving –

We got to watch money being printed. If only we could make it that fast ourselves!

Arlington National Cemetery -

Arlington House where General Lee had lived (who knew?)

Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unkown

American History Museum (Smithsonian) –

Muppets and Mark windsurfing

A walking tour of the monuments -

Washington Monument (it was closed so we didn’t get to go in)

WWII

Lincoln Memorial

Vietnam Memorial (not very well lit at night)

MLK (this is a new one this year)

FDR

Jefferson Memorial

Tuesday:

Library of Congress –

Super cool architecture!

The Capitol -

The Rotunda

Philo T. Farnsworth

Sleeping baby

Supreme Court -

Spiral staircase they don’t use because they fear their soundness (how silly)

Botanic Garden (Smithsonian) -

Wednesday:

We weren’t so touristy. We hung out at Ty’s house and Mark and I went to the DC temple and did sealings, a good anniversary-time activity!

Thursday:

Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian) -

Sculpture Garden -

National Archives – (It’s the building in back)

Then we went to our hotel in DC, got ready for a hot date (for our anniversary celebration) and left Claire behind. Mark and I went out to dinner at a little Italian place and then we walked to the Kennedy Center to see Les Miserable. It is a much bigger theater than what we have in Boise. The play was excellent, though we did get a little lost because we couldn’t understand all of the words so we had to read the synopsis in our programs during intermission to catch up.