Part 2: After landing in Virginia, we drove to D.C. First thing we saw was Washington's monument from the highway. We parked and went to find a garbage can and a bathroom. Well garbage cans/bathroom are a rare commodity is D.C. It took us forever to find one. We went to Vietnam Memorial first. We were amazed at the number of names written on two walls. It was so sad to think that each name represented a person that was loved. We went to Lincoln memorial next. This was one of my favorite stops. His statue was HUGE. For all you speech peoples, Gettysburg Address was written on the wall, how cool it that? Very cool. It was awesome to look through the pillars and see the reflecting pool and Washingtons monument. We walked around the National mall, seeing the Korean, WWII, FDR memorial. It was really neat at Korean, I was taking pictures and over heard the people next to me. It was a family with their grandfather. The grandfather was telling them his stories from Korean. He had tears in his eyes as he told them of how cold it was, of how he lost friends, the pain. That image will remain with me for a very long time. We were at the WWII memorial on the 66th anniversary of D-day. We went to Washingtons monument after that. It was so tall. The tickets were sold out to go up in it. We took pictures by it. It was so windy, it was crazy. We had lunch after that. It was really nice to just sit down, eat, and talk about what we had seeing. The outside of the building, where we had lunch, was pretty awesome. It started to rain, which felt so good. Ryan, Sarah, and I sang and danced in the rain. The weather was so hot and humid. It was 86 degrees with 53% humid, when we left Idaho it was in the 50. So the rain felt good to cool off. We went to the Air and Space museum to get out of the rain. (My mom doesn't like rain) It was really neat to see all the original planes. We saw Writes brothers plane, Apolo 13, and the spirit of St. Louis among others. We then went to the capitol. It was pretty awesome. We ended up falling asleep on the bench out side of the capitol. After walking all of D.C. And being up for 37 hours we were pretty tired. Went back to our hotel to have some dinner. Sarah, Ryan, and I were going to get into the hot tub. So we went the stairs into the pool room, to find out they didn't have a hot tub. They had this small little pool that a bunch of little kids in it, with a life guard watching. It was so awkward. The life guard kept staring at us. Yeah we felt pretty retarded. So we went back upstairs, after dipping our feet in the cold water. I finish A Walk to Remember then went to bed. So that was our crazy awesome day in D.C.
If I went back again I would go to Lincoln and Jefferson memorial. I really wanted to go to the Spy museum and Holocaust museum. We didn't go to the spy museum because was expansive and we didn't have time. We didn't go to the Holocaust museum because I wasn't sure how I would react to it. My speech is on the Holocaust, so if it was to much I wouldn't have been able to compete or at least finish the speech. But the next chance I get to go back that is where I am going.
P.S. I am in the airport right now about to board. So I will add more pictures when I have time.
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