Washington D.C. - Day Four

The final thing we did in Washington D.C. was to visit the museum of American History and to see the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence - all of which were very interesting, but all of which resulted in no pictures....

Therefore Day Four's post comprises the views taken from the Washington Monument on the evening of Day Three...

View of the Monument from the outside - we went to the area with the windows that you can see the near the tip

The golden elevator that took us to the tip

View to the West, the circular area is the World War 2 Memorial, the rectangular area of water is the reflecting pool and at the end is the Lincoln Memorial



View to the East, the Capitol building is at the end of the green area known as the National Mall

View to the South. The white building with the domed top is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial



View to the North, which includes the White House

Zoomed in view of the White House

View looking directly down from the tip of the Monument. The small dots are people....

An idea of the relative size of the Monument, which seems huge in Washington D.C. and stands at 50 storeys high or 555ft high

 

Washington D.C. - Day Two & Three

So, days two and three in D.C. saw us visit the Capitol Building, the Air & Space Museum, the Roosevelt Memorial, the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial and the D.C. World War 2 Memorial...

The Capitol

View from the front of the Capitol

The Rotunda

The Rotunda

The Speaker of the House's office

The Statue Room

The Statue Room

Air and Space Museum

Two rockets

 

Alan d'Authreau's camera, now on display in the National Air and Space Museum following it's last shot of the proposal of Becky and Alan. All that's missing is the blanket used in the process of the photography early indications show that this wasn't donated as Becky had "a bit of a chill". Alan has now updated his camera to a vintage polaroid land camera, good choice!!!!!!

Roosevelt Memorial

Martin Luther King Memorial

Here he is!

 

Jefferson Memorial

D.C. World War 2 Memorial

The Washington Johns

John Paul Jones

A space John located in the air and space museum much to our amusement!!! This uses a system of vacuums to suck out your number 1's and 2's.

And Finally...

We both decided to go to McDonalds for dinner as it was close to the museums. Some Americans have difficulty with both our accents and Matt has significant difficulty in understanding the local lingo so the ordering went pretty much like this:

American Waitress: What can I get for you?
Matt: I'll have a Chicken McNugget meal please?
America Waitress: That's 8 dollars please
Matt: I'm fine thank you and how are you today?
American Waitress: No I said that's 8 dollars
Dave: [laughs]

American Waitress: And what can I get for you?
Dave: I'll have a quarter pounder meal
American Waitress: So you want the McNuggets as well?
Dave: No I want the quarter pounder meal.
Matt: [Laughs]

Washington D.C. - Day One

So, day six of the trip arrived and we took a look around the biggest sites here in D.C, which included the White House, the Capitol and the Washington, Lincoln and World War 2 Memorials:

The White House

Front view of the White House

The lads in front of the White House

The Capitol Building

View of the Capitol Building

The Washington Monument

The lads in front of the Monument

The view of the Monument from the Lincoln Memorial with the Capitol Building in the background

World War 2 Memorial

The Lincoln Memorial

View from the World War 2 Memorial

View of the Lincoln Memorial from just outside

Lincoln in his famous seat