Day 5 The Capital and Monuments

Today we had a fabulous Capital tour from Jeff and Rachel's friend Terry. We toured from 8:30-10:30 and it went by super fast. Terry was a fun tour guide and pointed out lots of details and interesting things. I learn something new with every tour I take. We actually arrived early at about 8 so we huddled under the portico at the LOC until they opened to get out of the rain. After they opened we took the tunnel to the Capital and met Terry there.

 The tunnels are always like and adventure and this morning they were deserted.

 Loved the detail of the corn on the column. The Capital has lots of interesting details.

 The old Supreme Court.

 The corridors were often deserted during our behind the scenes tour.

 Our group picture.

 This time the rotunda was uncovered and the restoration had been completed. It was gorgeous.

After our tour Terry gave us some tickets to view the House. We waited in line to get in and just before it was our turn they recessed so we decided to call it quits and just viewed the empty room.

 After our tour we headed over to the Supreme Court to look around. They were seated at the time and just coming down with a judgment so we couldn't get up into the court for awhile. So we took that opportunity to have a snack in their cafeteria while we waited to get in. They finally finished and up we went to peek into the court room.

 I love the ceilings there.

 After we toured the Supreme court we went back across the street to walk around the outsider of the Capital. It was misty and beautiful.

As many times as we've been there we haven't really noticed the beautiful lamp posts.

We next went over to the Ford Theater and were lucky enough to get right in.

 Of course there was a line. But it wasn't as horrible as it appeared once we got in.

 

Since we were pretty close we headed down the street to the Mall and saw some interesting sights along the way.

 We spent the rest of our day touring the monuments at the mall. 

We toured the WW 2 monument which we love.

 We also went to the Vietnam Wall.

It's always so much more fun when we can show someone these wonderful monuments for the first time. We enjoyed taking Megan around to all of it.We also went to the Korea Memorial and that's where we met up with Rachel. We ordered an Uber to take us to Old Alexandria for dinner. That was kind of a disaster since we could see the driver trying to get over to the Lincoln Memorial where we were waiting and he couldn't make it work. Finally he cancelled and we started all over again but this time we got a black Cadillac Escalade full of all the trimmings. It was pretty fun riding in style. We headed to Gadsby's Pub and had a wonderful dinner together.

This time we had dessert there instead of walking for ever. But again we did log alot of steps today!!