Sharp's Travels

Today is Sunday and the bus leaves the park every hour instead of every ½ hour. We got on the bus at 10am and took the Metro green line and then transferred to the blue line landing at the Smithsonian stop.
We headed right away to see if we could get tickets to go up in the Washington Monument. They were all sold out for the day. That was ok. Yesterday we did go up in the tower at the Old Post Office and got to oversee the city.
We walked up by the Washington Monument, got some pictures and moved on to the World War II Memorial. It honors the 16 million Americans who fought in the most devastating war in world history. Gold stars on the Freedom Wall stand for the 400,000 Americans who died. It is all laid out so well. There is a reflection pool that stretches from this memorial all the way down to the Lincoln Memorial.
We walked over to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. We had been there once before, years ago. There were people there today that were trying to make an imprint of their loved ones name on the wall. We walked past statues of men and women who served in Vietnam.
We continued on to the Lincoln Memorial. It was designed in the style of a classical Greek Temple. It overlooks the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol. Within this building is a 19 foot marble statue of Abraham Lincoln. He is flanked by inscriptions of his second inaugural address and the famous Gettysburg Address.
We strolled over to the Constitution Gardens. Here on the stones, they list all the signatures of the people who signed the Constitution.
We walked up by the White House and got to see the front, back entrance and lawn. The living quarters for the president and family are on the second and third floor. It was an impressive site.
We went down to the White House Visitors Center and watched a 30 minute video on the rooms inside the White House, the furnishings and china used for special events. There were lots of pictures of past and present presidents and families.
We tried to tour the Ford Theater where President Lincoln was shot but it was closed because they were having a show today. We did tour the house where Lincoln was taken and died, after he was shot, located across the street from the theater.
We were ready to quit touring for the day so headed back to the metro to head home.
Gay has uploaded pictures of the day. See album: DC mall