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[zestfive]

Yesterday, we took the train to DC, the subway to the Mall. P had never been to DC but I used to go when I was a kid when my paternal grandparents lived in Silver Spring, MD. We didn't especially have a strong opinion about what we were going to do but decided that we were going to go to the Holocaust Museum, Bureau of Engraving (where they make the money) and Library of Congress. We knew that we had to get the tickets early for both and the Museum came up first and the tickets were for less than an hour so we hung out until our time came up.  I had been to the Museum before but P had never been there. I also admit that I'm a huge softie and often get emotional about stuff like that, if someone starts crying, I often am a sympathy crier. We took probably 2-3 hours going through it. I knew a fair amount about the Holocaust but P knew very little. I don't know that I knew about all of it, enjoyed reading more about the ghettos, uprisings, denmark rescuing their own and other people who helped save some people. Our admission tickets were for noon and I don't think we got out of there until after 3pm.  The Bureau was out of tickets, bummer. I felt bad because that was the only thing that P really wanted to go to. We wandered toward the mall and walked through the Smithsonian Folkways event(I had seen this  years before the last time I was there but didn't really have a chance to check it out). We went to one of the museums for something to eat, our feet were killing us. We were lucky we got there when we did because they close at 4pm and it was 5 minutes before. After our expensive meal, we went outside and listened to some music before we decided to head back to the subway than the train station, we didn't know what time the train left and we sure didn't want to be late.

We were glad to be home, delivery pizza and off to sleep.

Today is Harpers Ferry and one last night at the hostel before we move on...to who knows where.

Comments

[stagger-lee77.livejournal.com]

i'm glad your vacay is going so well.

[mplsindygirl.livejournal.com]

oh, the joys of wandering without a specific destination :)

[zestfive.livejournal.com]

thanks

[zestfive.livejournal.com]

gotta love it!