National Archives and the Capitol building

There’s quite a lot to post for the day.  However, being the ballerina that I am I took a face plant  and torn up my left hand a little.  I couldn’t  take a face plant just anywhere, oh know not Margo.  I fell by the reflecting pool in front of the Capitol  building.  talk about embarassing.  So, I’ll do a full post when we get home later.

 

Hand is finally feeling better so here is the update.

We got into the National Archives.  You can’t take any pictures inside but I have to say it’s really kind of cool to see be able to walk up to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of  Rights.  The Magna Carta is also there but sadly it was out for restoration when we were there.  We got up to look at the Declaration and it’s pretty faded.  You can make out John Hancocks signature at the bottom.  Apparantly the Declaration hung next to a window in US Customs Office from 1841 – 1876.

Our next stop was the National Museum of Natural History.  This is not one of my favorite museums but I have to say it was pretty amazing.

We got some lunch at the musuem.   The museums might all be free to get into but the food certainly isn’t cheap.  I think Dwayne and I spent easily $45.00 for lunch each day that we did lunch in the museums.

We walked up towards the Capitol Building so we could walk through and get a look.  As we were walking around the reflecting pool in front of the Capitol this is where Margo did her ballerina move and fell on my face.  I seriously hate when I do stuff like that.  I don’t bounce back like I used to.  Needless to say my hand hurt like crazy but we continued on to the Capitol.

Got inside and it’s amazing.  We did a tour and got to see the Rotunda.  The Capitol is pretty impresive.

After we got done with our tour of the Capitol we went through the underground tunnel to the Library of Congress.

That was our last stop for the day.  We got on the subway and went back to our apartment so we could pack for our flight home.