So wow, where to begin?
Mom and I had a hard time sleeping, she kept snoring and I kept sleep talking and moving and sleep walking all night. I find it funny though :)
Anyway, we went down to breakfast, after getting ready for the day, around 6:45 and was shuttled to the Metro by 0730 and soon on our way to our first destination (the Library of Congress).
First the metro station, is really cool! But I didn't know it went underground (mostly forgot in all my excitement ;) anyway, we went underground. Over bridges and crazily enough repeated a cycle of underground, and then above for a while. There were many stops along the metro we had to take, so it did take a while. As the train pulled into an underground station, I was like whoa! there's another city down here XD and then when it came to mom and I having to get off on our stop underground, we came to find out that the metro we needed was on ANOTHER level! so there were two levels to the metro underground, one above ground and I was astonished that the metro was that complex XD
Next stop the Jefferson Building. Oh my word! The history behind it! just amazing :) Got to go view the main reading room (that's in national treasure's 2?) the statues in that room were incredible (they didn't let you take pictures of anything really.. which really stinks, but I will remember it :) there were different statues there representing the different science and things that were brought to America for development of the nation.
Then the book collection of Thomas Jefferson :) he sold 6,000 books total to the library, then when the white house (the library stash at the time) was burnt down there were roughly around 1/3 of his collection unharmed, and the rest of his collection is being replaced by congress. Walking around the whole building though was a gift in itself. The architecture and design of everything, made me think how skilled these men and women are to make this building. There are entire marble columns and staircases. :) it was a beautiful sight.
After that, mom and I went back on the metro to go pick up the bikes we were to ride around on all day. We got lost-ish. We just went the wrong way, right place! Wrong way ;)
We got the bike with a group-on which saved millions right there. 2 dollars more for the group-on for the whole day till close, than the 2 hour pass. Once we got our bikes, we headed towards the "Mall."
The mall is where all the main museums and visitor centers are. Mom and I traveled to look at the Declaration of Independence, but we were unable to get in.
So we grabbed icecream for lunch lol, and head to the Capitol building. Where we got a personalized tour of everything :) it was incredible :) knowing the history of the it and how the House and Senate, switched places. Saw some old courtrooms. :) Statues of famous people, ghost stories and the works. Also have a House and Senate pass, meaning I can go watch them debate stuff in the room! We didn't use the passes sadly. I was about dead from no sleep. So mom and I went to go get lunch-fries and pudding (to share),
Next we took our bikes and rode around the mall, and towards the Jefferson Memorial. :) ((after we found coffee for me and mom to wake up because we were dead on our feet, to say)) it was fun, we got caught in a Down poor of rain,. As in a flash flood type of rain. The rain drops were huge! :) I wanted to dance in the rain, and then kept stopping myself, because I didn't want to be wet ;)
Do you know how tall the Jefferson statue is? or the pillars to hold up the place? Its Massive! we waited out the rain storm and continued on our way :)
After Jefferson was the FDR memorial, which we walked backward unintentionally, took a lot of pictures, sadly that's when the camera started to die. So, we took pictures as soon as we could. :) and as fast too.
I kept shuffling my feet along the memorial's ground stones, because I was afraid of slipping like I always do on wet slick surfaces ;) mom was more accident prone today than me... so I am okay ;)
Found a shirt and hat that I absolutely love :) want to find stuff for my family and best friend though :)
Then we went to see the Lincoln Memorial, needles to say I hate stairs at the moment.... so many and me slipping on them is just a curse waiting to happen. Haha. He's huge! Lincoln is big! and then we tried finding the bookstore after going down steps to find an elevator taking us back up to the main part of the memorial and to the bookstore. Again, I went down the elevator ( I really don't like them, they make me dizzy. but I was tired of the steps!)
We left and visited the Vietnam and Korean war monuments. then the walls of remembrance (not the real name.) Some dumb dude was being very disrespectful though. We went on the the WWII memorial, not the holocaust museum. Also the Boyscout Memorial, and the White House. Returned the bikes and headed home. We went to the little store here at the hotel and got dinner lol. **
Anyway, long day and eventful one at that. Mom says I'm more reasonable with food in my stomach ;)
haha throwing that out there ;)
Came home, showered wrote a lot. ate food :) It was a great day :) lots of pictures too :) soo happy I had a camera :D
Emily <3 br="" nbsp="">
** twitter -- emilina_lilly :) look for most recent post and find what my dinner was :P lol it's sad ;)
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