Day 2 in D.C.

 Day 2 started early in the morning.  We got the Metro down to the Smithsonian stop and came out by the Department of Agriculture.  Some of these buildings are huge...

 We walked past the Smithsonian Castle

 Ben standing in front of the Washington Monument

 It was way quieter by the monument than it was on Sunday, so Ben got his wish to touch it!!!!

 Curious way of sunbathing

 We walked down to the Lincoln Memorial

 We spent some time in the WWII Memorial 

We met some people from Missouri taking similar pictures!!!

 Everyone was taking this picture!!

 I'm probably the only person that took a picture of the ducks in the Reflecting Pool!!!!

 We went to the Vietnam Memorial wall.  

 Lincoln Memorial

 Reflecting Pool is reflecting

 Abe and Ben

 Ben realized that Marine One was on the White House lawn, so we had to hoof it over there to get pictures

 The African American museum really does dominate the landscape, it's a really cool looking building

 We went to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.  It was very well done

 Most poignant part of the museum

 We met Nicole and Madelyn at the National Museum of American History.  We didn't stay too long as they had already been there a while, but I did get this picture of Washington....

We made a quick trip into the National Museum of Natural History.  We only had time to do the gems section-Ben wanted to see the Hope Diamond

 Then it was time to leave.  Came out by the Department of Justice building

 Past the Trump Hotel-I was NOT allowed to get coffee at this Starbucks!!!!!