A Day in the Life...: monuments and memorials galor!

this day was by far the coldest (other than the next day, when it rained and then we were wet and cold) and of course this was the day we ended up walking all over the place from memorial to memorial. cools stuff to see though

above is the WWII memorial, which lies at the end of the reflecting pool, between the Lincoln memorial and the Washington monument. it was build in 2005 and i think is the firs (and only) 21st century monument build (thus far).

me and august looking at the memorial...hood on hot chocolate in hand haha...it was cold

Lincoln memorial

Washington monument

in the WWII memorial...the stars represent the soldiers

me at the end of the reflecting pool with the Lincoln memorial in the background

me and august in front of the Lincoln memorial

the family

now from the other side...at the Lincoln memorial looking back from where we had just come.

me and august walking a little over a mile in the pouring rain with a broken umbrella to get to one of the best art museums i've probably ever been to. this was right after we went to the Smithsonian, which was cool.

in the art museum...the architecture was amazing!

august in the museum. gary, betsy and sedona (betsy's friend) went to another museum because they don't like art (lame-os...it bores them), so it was just my mom, who was running around somewhere with katie and me and august.

they had one exhibit that was a bunch of manuscripts all dating back to the 1200's and 1300's! it was amazing that the colors were all so vivid and the condition of the documents are even better than our 200 yr. old constitution or any of those documents. how crazy! i also really enjoyed all the modern art that was downstairs (they have a Pollock, which was cool to see). by the way, Jackson Pollock was the guy with the famous splatter paintings in case you didn't know.