Before we tell about our day, we wanted to relive something that happened yesterday afternoon. When we were on the Metro coming back to Charla and John's, it was rush hour and the train was pretty crowded. Carol, Kathy and I had to stand and hold on to the hand rails, much like we did on the cable car last year in San Francisco. After one of our stops, with the three of us hanging on for dear life and almost losing our footing, a sweet young woman offered Kathy her seat. I said, "Kathy, it's because you're her elder." The girl was from Ireland and we don't think she got why that was so funny, but we got such a kick out of it!
Today we started out at Ford's Theater and learned everything you could ever want to know about Lincoln and his assassination. We paid for the audio tour and thought it was well worth it, though the Boy Scouts got in our way most of the time. After having brunch at Lincoln's Waffle House, we visited the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, then went to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. We wanted to like the portraits and modern art, but seriously, we couldn't make anything out of much of it. The last stop of the day was the National Museum of Natural History, where we saw the Hope Diamond, plate tectonics and decomposing bodies. Our cousin Charles had told us where to find the Seymouria dinosaur by the cafe, and he was right! However, we were so tired we could hardly walk. Charla picked us up around 7:15 and brought us back to their house for homemade hamburgers, crab cakes and salad.
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| In Ford's Theatre where Lincoln was shot. |
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| We titled this "work of art" I've Gained So Much Weight, What Am I Going To Wear Today? |
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| We haven't stopped yet..... |
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| The Seymouria dinosaur fossil in the National Museum of Natural History. |
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| The toes at the Smithsonian. |
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| One of the "works of art" in the Hirshhorn Museum. We figure if this exhibit can be in the Hirshhorn.... |
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| ...then our version should too! |
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