Josh has been talking about going to DC again for a while now and so for his 30th birthday I surprised him and took him there! Lincoln got to meet his namesake and we toured the city in awe of all the amazing monuments, memorials and museums that tell us about our American heritage. What an amazing history our country has. We packed as much into 3 days as we possibly could. We even got to see our super great newlywed friends Jon & Lauren who were in town on business! Josh stood in line at 6:45 a.m. to get tix to go up into the Washington Monument, we saw the Jefferson & Lincoln Memorials, WWII Memorial, Vietnam Memorial, Iwo Jima Memorial, Arlington Cemetery and Robert E. Lee's house, Capitol building (twice) which we also stood in line early for, White House tour, Crime & Punishment Museum, Air & Space Museum, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Natural History, a DUCK tour, Mount Vernon (my favorite!), Library of Congress, National Archives, and I may be forgetting something if you can believe that. We had such an amazing time- just wish we'd had longer! You better believe we're going back when our two favorite places open back up after renovation: Ford's Theater and Musuem of American History.
Can you do anything else but respect the thousands and thousands of men and women who have died for our country??
Lincoln slept through it, but here's good old Abe. What a guy.
Um, yes, that is George Washington's house! 80% original- we even got to see George's bed where he died.
Josh insisted on posing at every last place we visited. :)
The awesome view of the White House from the window of the Washington Monument!
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I am going to make daryn check out this post so that he has an idea of what to do for his lovely wife:) I'm SO jealous...I'm such a George Washington/American History fan...I love seeing your pictures!!! What a great wife you are for doing that for Josh!
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