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Ghettysburg

This could have been the highlight of our trip to D.C. My mom, Jeff, and I drove a few hours to Pennsylvania to see Ghettysburg. We got there at 7pm, when the shop and exhibits were shutting down, but we did get to walk around and see the sites still. There was way too many monuments to remember which one was which. It was a very beautiful place to visit. We could have taken days to see the whole thing. We also got to see the house that Abraham Linclon finished the Ghettysburg Address in.

Pennsylvania Monument

I had some relative that faught from Pennsylvania. We tried looking for his name but there were thousands to go through. It was the biggest and coolest monument we saw. There were stairs inside it to go up and look out from ontop it.

Lincoln on the Pennsylvania Monument

View from ontop the Pennsylvania Monument...very pretty scenery

I believe this was the New York Monument

Monument about the Ghettysburg Address

Suspected place of the Ghettysburg Address

Mason's Monument

Memorial for Abraham Lincoln

Scenery picture...wish we had time to look for lead balls/bullets

Washington D.C. Temple

Its no San Diego Temple but its pretty darn snazzy. Jeff went around the grounds and took some nice pictures while I sat down with my mom becuse I felt sick :). It would have been nice to have made time to go in but it was a great opportunity to just see it too.

Washington D.C. Smithsonian Museums

Jeff and I went to almost all the Smithsonian Museums while we were visiting D.C. Some were well worth it and some were nice to say we went anyways. We went to the National Archives (Declaration, Bill of Rights...), Natural History Museum, Air and Space Museum, The Holocaust Museum, and The National Art Museum.

Declaration of Independence

This was so not worth it...as much of a history fan that I am. We waited about 2 hours in the blazing hot sun to get into a building where it was a maze to get to the exhibit, then we waited some more behind velvet ropes while another group was looking at the exhibits. When we finally got in, it was super dark to preserve the papers. We couldn't' use flash photography so our pictures all turned out bad, except the one above, and the papers were very faded. I was pretty bummed.

Romulus and Remus

Famous statue...I think it it called The Dancer...

I'm thinking...a model of The Thinker

Van Gough's self portrait

Jeff knows way more about the Air and Space Museum than I could imagine. He took tons of pictures but I don't know anything about the planes so I only posted a few. I believe this one is the awesome plane that Hitler built that if he built more could have won the war....interesting fact, according to Jeff.

Replica of a WWI bunker

Charles Lindbergh's plane, The Spirit of Saint Louis

The Hope Diamond

T-Rex!

Mammoth

Replica of a Blue Whale

Easter Island Head....Dumb dumb give me gum gum

Washington D.C. in June

Jeff, my mom, and I went to Washington D.C. in June to visit my brother Bobby and to see the sites. Jeff and I spent a whole, very hot day, running around D.C. seeing the memorials and the buildings. I really enjoyed seeing all the history in EVERYTHING. Jeff and I suspect we walked over 8 miles that day alone. We had a blast, even thought we decided the bus tours would have been way better : ).