Close-Up 2008

Close-Up 2008 - Page Text Content

BC: The week was over, but the sites and memories will last forever

FC: Welcome to Washington, D.C.

1: First we had to fly there, very early in the morning

2: The first day we went to the Smithsonian | First we rode the subway | Then we looked around | There were many sites to see | The Cherry Blossoms were in bloom

3: We went to the History Museum | We saw dinos | We got a little silly | And other things | And the hope diamond

4: We went to Chinatown....

5: and then a baseball game

6: The nest day we went to the hotel... | Met some friends...

7: and got a "little" silly | only a little though, lol

8: The next day we went to the war memorials

9: World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War

10: The next day we saw the presidential memorials

11: The Lincoln, Jefferson, and Roosevelt Memorials

12: Then we went to the Air and Space Museum, saw where Lincoln was shot,

13: where he died, and then we ate at the Hard Rock Cafe and the Froggy Bottom Pub

14: The next day was spent on Capital Hill

15: We saw the Capital, the Library of Congress, and the Supreme Court

16: The next day we went to the Art Museum

17: Then we went to the Newseum

18: We also saw an old black community, monument, and Ben's Chili Bowl

19: Then we took the bus to see a live play

20: The next day was our free day | We saw the Holocaust Museum and the National Archives, then we went shopping

21: We also went to the Arlingtion Cemetary | And saw the Kennedy's graves

22: We saw also saw the tomb of the unknown soldiers and the changing of the guard....

23: and the Amphitheatre located in the cemetary

24: The last day we flew home... | catching glimpses of the city through the clouds... | seeing the sites from the sky...

25: the Arlington Cemetary... | and the Pentagon... | and then it was engulfed in a canvas of clouds