Day trip to Washington D.C.

This summer has been filled mostly with work, a little school and the occasional romp through Fun Town.

Last Monday I was with my friend Linda at A.C. Moore and she was saying that she hasn't been anywhere this entire summer and that since she's about to start grad school, she deserves to go somewhere. So we decided to take a day trip to Washington D.C. on my next day off, Thursday.

We woke up super early, left my house around 8:00 a.m. and hopped on the NJ Turnpike and got to the nation's capitol in about four hours. We didn't have an exact address to input into Linda's GPS which she's named "Susan," so as a destination we entered in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and Susan was more than happy to oblige.

A few hundred miles and a pit stop later, we parked in the nearest parking garage and ate our packed lunches.

Our first stop was at the National Air and Space Museum:

It was pretty rad to see how far we've come in terms of flight and such, and to know that I won't have to fly cross-country in something like this anymore.

After that we went to the National Archives, where I couldn't help but feel like Nicolas Cage in the "National Treasure" movies.

"No flash photography of any kind," was the motto of this particular building, so I lack awesome photos of really old papers like the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

The steps outside of the Archives building were surprisingly conducive to taking "Congressional/Law & Order" pictures of my friends Linda and Alisha, so we did.

After the Archives building, we went to Ford's Theater where Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth. No awesome reenactment, but there was plenty of air conditioning and some displays and such in the basement including a statue of Honest Abe reading a book.


 Across the street from the theater is the house where he actually died, with original furniture and memorabilia from the time.














The last museum that we went to was the National American History Museum. We went specifically for the First Lady exhibit, to look at all the inaugural dresses and the place settings.

Barbara Bush

Our favorites were Barbara Bush's ensemble, Hilary Rodham Clinton's lacy blue number and Michelle Obama's large Jimmy Choo's.

Hilary Rodham Clinton

Michelle Obama

Slowly but surely, our energy started to dwindle so we didn't make it to the monuments like we wanted and planned to but we were nonetheless satisfied with our trip.