Here's a quick recap of our weekend... On Saturday we visited the American history museum, where we saw the original star spangled banner! It was so delicate looking, it's amazing that it ever survived to today. There was also a really cool exhibit called "America Moves" about transportation through the history of our country. Neat stuff. We spent about 4 hours at the museum, and we didn't even make it through each exhibit.
After the museum, we hopped on the metro and rode into a cool DC neighborhood where we met up with our good friend Steph! Steph was up in DC for the weekend visiting a friend, and we were fortunate enough to be able to nab her for a few hours to catch up :)
On Sunday, we went to the Holocaust Museum. This museum is one of the most amazing ones we have ever been to. This was Jen's third visit and Chris's second, and it is equally as powerful as it was the first time. The exhibits are extremely well put together, and we saw an excellent special exhibit about Nazi propaganda that was really interesting.
Today we went to the National Archives and saw the original Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. Then we visited the Air and Space Museum, where we saw the original Wright Flyer, a WWII airplane exhibit, and a space race exhibit. Chris was geeking out over all of the airplanes and impressed Jen with his aircraft naming abilities! We walked over to the WWII memorial and then called it a day.
Photos today: WWII memorial, outside of the Archives building, the Air and Space Museum, and the last of the cherry blossoms falling on someone's car.
your minds must be spilling over with all of the things you're seeing and reading!! It's all very interesting to me since I've only spent one day in DC in my life... :)
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