Today was another pretty good day trip wise, but still pretty poor weather wise.  It was very cold and very windy, but only a slight drizzle as opposed to the rain we saw yesterday.

We started today with some breakfast from Starbucks – well, coffee  Then we were on our way to the mall.  We got off the train a stop early because there was a delay and that put us out at Federal Triangle.  This brought us to the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center which doesn’t sound very great, but Paul has this camera that takes amazing 360 degree pictures!!  So it actually make for some great pics.  We then crossed the street to Freedom Plaza which is like a map of the city and we took some more pics.

Then we were at the mall and the first thing we saw was the Washington Monument.  I am not sure why, but this is my favorite one.  There was some sort of special thing going on where it was like they were setting up for a concert or something.  But we were still able to have clear shots for pics, even if you couldn’t actually see that far away due to the weather.

We walked towards the WWII Memorial, which was pretty cool.  Very big and pretty.  We continued down along the Reflecting Pool to the Korean War Veterans Memorial.  This one is another of my favorites, it has soldiers walking through the brush like they would have during the war.  It also had a very nice wall with images like ghosted into it.  Paul got a good panorama of that.

Lincoln Memorial was next.  This is pretty amazing, it is so huge.  We walked all the way around it and then went inside.  Such an amazing scale and looking over the entire mall, it is a great thing.  Got some good pictures in there too.  After that we walked through the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.  This is cool looking and such a nice concept.  We didn’t get to see anyone doing like a pencil rub due to the rain, but people were looking for the names of loved ones anyway and that was pretty nice to see.

After that we had to kill some time before we could go up in the Washington Monument so we just walked down the mall.  But then we were right back for the ride all the way to the top!!  This was very cool.  Got pics from up there although you couldn’t really see too well because there was rain on the glass and the visibility was poor.

For lunch we ate at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Cafe.  This was where we had walked through the day before and I got the AMOR and spider pics.  The food was nothing spectacular but the seats were a very nice surprise!!!  We needed a break because we hadn’t stopped basically all day and it was like 14:00 before we even ate.

Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden was next.  This building is round like a doughnut.  So the middle was missing :).  I got a pic of a cool sculpture called Subcommittee.  I don’t know, I just liked it.  Next we were going to go the the Smithsonian Castle, but apparently it is closed for renovations so onwards we went to the National Air and Space Museum.  This was pretty cool, lots of planes obviously, but it was the end of the day and they were closing soon and we were all pretty tired.  So we left about 5 minutes before they closed and headed back to the hotel.

Well that about sums up the day.  Sorry if it was a bit long but that is what this is for after all  Hope you enjoyed and go to the picture gallery to see the cool shots!!!