Eric and I travel to a new place every year that we are married. This year we were able to use our Skymiles to go to Washington DC. It's one of those places that you have to go to once in your lifetime, and now I can cross it off my bucket list.
The first couple days were spent site seeing. Luckily it wasn't too hot, so we were able to hit up the major sites pretty quickly.
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| The White House |
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| Jefferson Memorial |
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| Part of the World War II Memorial |
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is only about a year old. This one was Eric's favorite because it's different than the rest of the memorials.
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| Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial |
The Korean War Memorial was probably one of my favorites. It was cool to see actual veterans looking at these. One of them pointed out that all these statues are wearing different uniforms because more than one military branch fought in the war.
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| Korean War Memorial |
This one looked exactly like it does in the movies!
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| The Lincoln Memorial |
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| The Washington Monument taken from the Lincoln Memorial. |
What would a trip to DC on an election year be without protestors?
Eric was able to get us a private tour of the Capital. Funny enough, our Kansas tour guide was a student from BYU Idaho. She pointed out a lot of interesting things that we wouldn't have heard on the general tour.
Every state has a statue held in the capital. Our guide showed us Brigham Young for Utah! Apparently Kansas is going to get an Amelia Earhart statue soon because no one knows anything about the current guy.
We didn't want to spend days looking at the Smithsonian, so we just went to the National Air and Space Museum.
We headed to the Archives to check out the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Apparently it is not the entrance and they only open this door on the 4th of July. This picture is so funny to me.
Eric also got us a tour of the Pentagon. That was a bust. They don't really show you anything, but the one cool part of the tour was seeing the 9/11 Memorial. For the rest of the vacation, we went to the Arlington National Cemetery, went swimming, ate lots of food, and relaxed.
The night before we left, there was a nice thunderstorm. Eric took TONS of pics before he got this great shot!
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| The Washington Monument from our hotel window. |
We can't wait for next year's trip!
5 comments:
This looks like so much fun! I've never been there, but I recognize things that I saw in Night at the Museum 2. (You guys should totally watch that movie so you can be like, "Seen it. Seen it. Seen it." Haha.)Love you guys!
I can't believe how big that door is! Eric looks tiny. You guys are so cute! I'm glad you had a fun trip!
How fun. I love that these sites are Free. Glad you had a good time. What's the plan for next year? Beach? Amusement park? Another country? Road trip??? Traveling is fun and you two know how to do it. Lova ya ~Mom
Next year plan to go to the Calgary expedition. There's lots and lots to do but you need to get your tickets ahead of time. They have free pancakes with blueberry sauce every morning and lots of different shows with covered wagons. If you want to know more about it just call me. The best time to go is the second week in July before it rains. You seem to be having a good time.
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Holy ginormous doors!! Looks like you guys had so much fun. Love all the pictures. You two are so adventurous!
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