Washington DC Trip: Saturday

Saturday morning saw Tom, Ray, and I getting up early, as usual! We rushed into DC to get in line for tickets to tour the Capitol building. It's free to tour, but you need to get there early to get tickets. Our tour time ended up being 11:40am, so we walked over to the Library of Congress to blow some time. The Library of Congress is a beautiful building (they all are in DC!), with elaborate quotes on the walls and carvings in the marble staircases. We got to peek into the main reading room, which is stuffed full of books. It was a very interesting place, I wish we had had more time to spend there.


We got back just in time to ask some fellow Wisconsinites to take our picture and head in for our Capitol tour. They are just about finished with their Visitor Center, so things were a little chaotic and we lost our group! We almost got escorted out by a security guard, but Tom sweet-talked him into trying to find our group. We never did find our group, but we snuck in with another group and learned some cool facts.

Next up was a drive out of DC and over to the Smithsonian's other Air and Space Museum. By this time, my feet were killing me from two days of walking on pavement went I'm not used to it. I let Ray and Tom wander around while I sat for a bit. I did get to see a Concorde airplane, a Blackbird, and the space shuttle Enterprise. Monsterous machines, all of them!

Saturday night was our relaxing night. We ordered some really good pizza to the hotel. The guys then watched some NBA finals while I worked on this blog and caught up on some reading. A very fun day!