DC: Saturday

Saturday morning we headed back over to the mall. We stopped by at the Washington Monument even though it is still closed from the earthquake. It is hard to really get an appreciation for how large it is unless you are right up by it! By the way, can you see how PERFECT the weather was for us? It was SNOWING back at home!

 Then we headed over to the Air and Space Museum for a couple of hours:

Followed by the Museum of Natural History:

Then we spent some time at the Museum of American History and we were able to meet up with our friends from the college days....the Taye family. It was great to spend some time with them! I think my favorite thing there were all of the inaugural gowns that the first ladies wore. I also loved seeing Lincoln's hat, and the ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz!

And that evening we went to a couple of monuments...the Lincoln and the Vietnam War Memorial:

Over 56,000 names are on this wall. It is pretty powerful to walk by and see all of those names.  On that somber note, another wonderful and exhausting day came to a close!