Washington, DC August 27, 2007

Our original plan was to sail to Washington, D.C. because Gordon had a training conference on August 27th. As usual the weather had other plans for us. We left the boat in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey and drove to Washington. It really was a pleasant drive. Our hotel was in the heart of the city, so while Gordon was at his conference, I walked down to the mall and visited many of the monuments and also spent time at some of the Smithsonian Museums. This is a picture of the Capital taken from the Washington monument.



Abe Lincoln still looking out over the mall. While I was there a tour guide was speaking to a group of people from Italy so I listened in to the half Italian and English discussion of Lincoln's life and his contributions to our country.










The Jefferson Memorial, this was a long distance shot taken from the mall.












I really enjoyed this new monument. It is the WWII memorial. It has beautiful bronze reliefs depicting scenes from WWII, not only of the soldiers but the citizens at home and their war preparations.










The "Wall" with the 58,000 names of the Vietnam soldiers who died.











The Women's Memorial.














I spent time at the Air and Space Museum as well as the Museum of Natural History. Some of the museum's were closed for renovation so there were exhibits in these two museums that included historical milestones. The IMAX films in the Air and Space Museums on Space Station, Fighter Pilots, etc were fun to watch.