Our day was under way and we already felt like we didn't have enough time in the day. We made our way to the National Archives and saw the original documents; The Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, and The Constitution. They were pretty impressively sized documents and its amazing that they still serve as the basis for our way of life today.
After the Archives we tried to go to the Treasury/Mint but they were already closed! We were a little bummed because Tim said the tour was really cool. We decided instead to do the Smithsonian Museum run. We started with the American History Museum. There we walked through artifact of technological developments. The light bulb, various engines. I always try to defend Nikola Tesla when I see Edison stuff. We saw the car used by the first two people to drive across the country. It seemed appropriate considering we were on a road trip.
Upstairs, Tim rounded a corner and laughed. “You're gonna love this.” I followed and saw one of the costumes used in the original Ninja Turtles movie! Awesome. I love me some Ninja Turtles. There was an entire section devoted to wars which was pretty cool. They had replicas of lots of weapons and such. At this point Tim and I were pretty exhausted. We hadn't had any food since brunch and had been walking all over town.
We made our way over to the Museum of Natural History. We scanned the exhibits and measured our level of fatigue to determine the only two exhibits we cared to see. We started with the dinosaur exhibit. I pulled out my phone and played the Jurassic Park theme song as we entered. T-rex was there and awesome as usual. I'm disappointed about the scale of the dinosaurs. They're actually not that big. I mean we have whales that big today. I always imagined dinosaurs to be colossal in size. Regardless, the skeletons were very cool. The other exhibit we saw was the Hope Diamond. It was a really big diamond and I imagined pulling a caper that involved laser beams and guard dogs. One last heist and then I retire in Mexico. Nothing could go wrong.
On the steps of the museum, we contemplated our next move. We needed food, but the last museum was going to close soon. We decided to make the schlep and trudged to the Air and Space Museum. There were some very cool models of space ships. We watched the landing on the moon. I still can't believe we've been to the Moon. I still can't believe we've been in space. Its amazing how far we've come technologically. Now let's hurry up and get to Mars and beyond.
Tim's mom actually happened to be in D.C. that same day. He went out to say hi to her while I finished walking through the exhibit.
At this point we were on the verge of collapse. We found a restaurant and filled our bellies. With the last hours of the day we did the walk to Lincoln one more time. We had missed the Korean and Vietnam war memorial. And with one more Metro ride, we were on our way to the next city.
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