The next part of our trip takes us into the nations capital, Washington DC. After our early morning flight and airport transfer, we find ourselves at our hotel which is right near the Museum of Air and Space and the National Mall.
First day we went around the Museum of Space and Air. Like with every other first day I didn’t take my camera so all I have are some rubbish phone camera photos. I won’t post them because they probably will make eyes bleed.
We did manage to see some cool stuff, they have a huge (really) planetarium where we saw a feature on black holes and other cool space stuff. Nothing beats seeing that stuff taking up your entire vision all the way to your peripheries.
We also saw the Apollo 11 Command Module, the backup Skylab station, Russian and American ICBM’s and a Cray 1 supercomputer, among other things.
The museum, like most in Washington DC, has free entry for the public.
By the time we got out we had dinner, planned a few things for the next few days and called it a day.
The following day, our 22nd day in the US, we took the Metro to the Chinatown/Downtown area where there are, among other things, lots of cafes and bars as well as a few interesting museums. Today we decided to go to the International Spy Museum. The Spy museum has a large showcase of artefacts from the world of espionage and while it’s very over the top American in it’s execution it really does have a lot of interesting information.
While exploring the area we came across a park with statues and a large fountain, a cafe with it’s own brewery (two, in fact, but the first one we decided to have dinner at), and the National Archives which we then decided to explore.
I took the photo above with my Sister standing in front of the fountains, though that probably didn’t need explaining. Update: I have linked this photo to a larger version.
The National Archives contains lots of American history in the form of documents. The documents are then used to create exhibits that are used to showcase, in great detail, the revolutionary and civil war eras of the US among other major historical events. The crowning jewel of the National Archives is the original Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights on display in the Rotunda.
With the day coming to an end we return to the brewery for some dinner and a few beers. Tomorrow we are driving out to Mill Run Pennsylvania to take the in depth tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater.