So where did I leave off??
That's right....Aimo's departure and the impending arrival of CLeisl.
In between we managed to squeeze in a weekend visit to the Nation's Capital and lend our personal support to President Obama and reassure him of Australia's continued friendship and support on behalf of Julia. Perhaps a tad premature given the current state of political affairs in Oz.
The weekend started off with a fleeting visit to the Native American Museum and a desire to return to the cafeteria to sample some traditional eats! Followers - be warned!.....the food sounds interesting and nice but really it's just a lot of corn stuff. Corn soup, corn dumplings, corn syrup....not so nice.. trust me!
Much nicer than corn soup was the free jazz concert in the Sculpture Garden at the National Art Gallery. Jugs of Sangria, a cool fountain to dangle your feet in and a perfect sunset. Ahhhh.......
The next day we checked out the Newseum which is a new museum dedicated to the media and coverage of significant world events. They had a hunk of the old Berlin Wall out could touch. Little Tugs was in her element and only closing time could get her out of there. She loved it sooooo much we had to go back the next day for more. Luckily the world cup final was on and they had the biggest tv screen I had even seen so I was happy too.
The Holocaust Museum was not so happy but very interesting. Well worth a visit...but bring a cardie, it was icy in there! I'm not sure if they were trying to give us an insight into how the concentration camp peeps felt in the bitter European winter but it was certainly enough to will us to escape!!
A visit to the Capitol Building was short and we didn't get to see the actual rooms where the actual politicians make the actual laws but we did get to see where Senator Teddy Kennedy got sick at one of the Obama inauguration balls. Old Teddy was rushed to hospital and then died.
Speaking of dead Kennedys we toured Arlington Cemetery where JFK and Jackie O are buried. Sadly so are several hundred thousand US soldiers which have been killed in all the US wars. And just to cheer this blog post up...Arlington is just one of a hundred such military cemeteries in the US!!!!
And what's a visit to Washington without stop at the Pentagon? And yes, it's just like it is on TV...big and five-sided. Being mere civilians were we unable to get an inside look, and photo's are strictly forbidden (I'm sure they had all sorts of spying devices positioned around the building - like men pretending to be shrubs that would follow us but stop the minute we turned around) so all I have is the 9/11 memorial to show.
With not much time left we managed to squeeze in a quick visit to the Air and Space Museum. One could probably spend about a week in there quite happily but with limited time I stuck to the essentials. See space ships and touch a moon rock! The hubble telescope photos of galaxies and stars were oh so pretty!
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