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| Willard Hotel with party symbols |
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| Great dinner! |
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| Washington Monument & Jefferson to the right |
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| Lincoln from the WWII |
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| Capital in the Background |
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| Korean Wary Memorial at night is very real |
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Night Monument Tour
The monument's in Washington DC are awesome at night. So off we went for the tour and fortunately it had quit raining and we could ride on the top of the bus. We had a great narrator/guide who was very knowledgeable describing so much as we rode around the city. We finished with dinner at the Willard Hotel.
Air & Space Museum
The Air and Space Museum is a wonderful history of aviation. We started by going to the IMAX movies Aircraft Carrier & Journey to Space in 3D. Very fun to watch and gave us all an hour to sit-down!
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| DePrater Bros prepare to enter flight simulator -- they went twice! |
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| You can see they enjoyed flying! |
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| Clark's Dad worked on the F104 fighters when they lived in Japan |
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| Ready for the 3D IMAX movies |
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| Lunar Lander |
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| This is Wright Bros original plane, new fabric has been applied |
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| WWI fighter planes |
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| My Superhero--Amelia Earhart! |
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| WWII Flight room |
American History Museum
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| Tucker Car -- only 51 ever made |
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| Bat mobile from 1989 movie |
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| Melania Trump Inaugural Ball Gown |
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| Ruby Slippers from Wizard of Oz |
The White House
We were fortunate to get into the White House! You have to apply through your Congressman's office 90 days prior to visiting. Just 2 days before our trip we found out we got in. We went through three security checks -- Dylan thought there should have be more. The final was a body scan. The tour is short since it's just the lower floor. It's self-guided and secret service officers are posted throughout. You can ask them any questions you want. As Connor ate his breakfast he thought he might ask "since I've been eating cereal since I was 3, do you think that makes me a 'cereal' killer?" We all laughed and said -- no don't ask that question! It was pouring rain as we left for the tour. We had to be there at 7:15 so rise and shine everyone by 6:00 am to get a Lyft!
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| Entry |
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| Ready to Enter! |
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| State Dining Room |
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| President Kennedy |
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| East Room |
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| Green Room |
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| Red Room |
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| Vermiel Room |
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| Nancy Reagan Portrait |
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| Theater |
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| Green Room |
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| Dishes |
Monday, November 5, 2018
Washington Monument
We walked from the museum
to the Washington Monument – which is in repair so surrounded by fencing and
construction equipment.
We summoned our Lyft
because we missed the bus and Clark really enjoys watching the car icon making
it’s way to pick us up. We had a nice
driver from Estonia, father Iranian, mother Estonian. A college graduate, Muhammad works
a full time job driving Lyft for extra money. He waited 4 years to come to America correctly
through the immigration process! He told us he is very conservative and it makes him angry that people can just walk over the border.
Holocaust Museum
Next
the Holocaust Museum--this is an emotional experience and also gives you a
sense of anger that it was allowed to happen.
As you enter, you take an Identification Card which tells the story of a
Jewish person who either died or survived.
You read it as you go saving the last page to the end as to your
person’s outcome. Over 400 volunteers, 74 of whom are Holocaust
survivors, are trained to answer questions, to offer context and stories.
One
of the most haunting displays is the area of the shoes. The 4,000 shoes on display are on loan from
the State Museum of Majdanek in Lublin, Poland. The shoes of murdered Jews were
piled in concentration camps to disempower those remaining in the camp and show
Nazi success in reaching their “final solution” of eliminating Jews.
Trains transported millions of Jews to the camps. The cars had no food or water.
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| Very few Jews were given prison clothing and used as forced labor. Most were murdered. |
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