On Thursday morning we went down to the Washington Monument to see if we could pick up any of the will call tickets that are distributed on a first-come-first-served basis every morning. We got there just a few minutes too late and they were all gone.
We walked over to the Air and Space Museum and spent a few hours there before heading east to take our Capital Building tour.
We were unaware that the tour of the actual senate room was separate, so all we saw was the tomb and the main room (whatever it’s called), which had a huge white donut (for the renovation of the columns) covering up Washington’s mural.
After leaving the capital we rushed to the Kennedy Center for our tour there.
We didn’t get to see all the performance spaces and weren’t allowed to take pictures in the ones we did see. The upper balcony outside was also closed because of “high winds.”
After the tour, we ate dinner at Whole Foods in Georgetown and then walked south to visit the Lincoln Memorial, Reflecting Pool and World War II memorial.
