DC p3
*streeetch* Long day. Got up early to get to our White House tour in time. I think we spent more time getting through security than touring the place, but it was still interesting to see at least part of it. Heh. And the First Family's dogs outside being walked.
Then we went over to the Library Congress to look around at the impressive building and such. We took a tour of the Capitol Building and even went through the hoops to go side in the galleries above each side. The House was empty. The Senate was technically in session, but had nothing going on and almost no one there until one senator came in to start speaking on the record about funding the Department of Homeland Security... nevermind that she wasn't speaking to anyone really, since there was no one there for all practical purposes. Ah, technicalities. We had lunch in the cafeteria of a building near there, amusingly separated into red, blue, and yellow "cores" which made me think about video games like Doom and finding the right colored key to open a door. Heh.
We then made our way over to the Kennedy Center, watching some of a free musical performance before catching an overpriced dinner in the café there and settling in for a showing of Sheer Madness - a comedic murder mystery of sorts that uses some audience participation to share the end of the whodunit. Entertaining. That had us out pretty late, though, and the metro line was undergoing some maintenance that slowed our departure from downtown too.
Tomorrow... not quite so early a start, but probably a similar ending as we're going to go see Chicago in the evening.
Then we went over to the Library Congress to look around at the impressive building and such. We took a tour of the Capitol Building and even went through the hoops to go side in the galleries above each side. The House was empty. The Senate was technically in session, but had nothing going on and almost no one there until one senator came in to start speaking on the record about funding the Department of Homeland Security... nevermind that she wasn't speaking to anyone really, since there was no one there for all practical purposes. Ah, technicalities. We had lunch in the cafeteria of a building near there, amusingly separated into red, blue, and yellow "cores" which made me think about video games like Doom and finding the right colored key to open a door. Heh.
We then made our way over to the Kennedy Center, watching some of a free musical performance before catching an overpriced dinner in the café there and settling in for a showing of Sheer Madness - a comedic murder mystery of sorts that uses some audience participation to share the end of the whodunit. Entertaining. That had us out pretty late, though, and the metro line was undergoing some maintenance that slowed our departure from downtown too.
Tomorrow... not quite so early a start, but probably a similar ending as we're going to go see Chicago in the evening.
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