Travel - Washington D.C.
June 23, two days after my sister Phoebe birthday. We were suppose to be on a plane heading to Las Vegas for a day trip. As there was a blunder with the tickets, the trip was a bust. Fast forward June 26, now we are up early finally going on our day trip. It's not to Las Vegas though, we were flying to Washington D.C. for some cultural learning.
So we arrived at Reagan International airport, like always I searched ahead for transportation and the railway was the best way around.
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Heading to National Mall
Department of Agriculture
When we arrived at the National Mall, the first thing we needed was food!! We asked and was directed to the agriculture federal building to the USDA cafeteria. We had just missed breakfast so we had to wait til lunch was ready. After lunch we were ready for our adventure around the National Mall. While there we are on a time limit on what to see and how long to spend at each museum. Our first stop was the Smithsonian Castle and S Dillion Ripley Center (even thought she got it confused with the Ripley Believe it or not museum).
While making our way thru the Ripley Center we enter the National Museum of African Art, and seen a lot of great conversational pieces from a mask and jewelry to a vision art called "Invocations" by Jim Chuchu.
After getting lost a little then finally coming back to the exit we started to head to the Air and Space Museum but was quickly deterred because of the long line to enter the build. So we began to head towards the National Gallery of Art and Museum of Natural History for some bones. While in the gallery of art I was able to study the lighting of Rembrandt a lot better than copies on the internet. Over at the Natural Museum we looked at the history of mankind, animals and a few dinosaurs, as the dinosaur exhibit was still under construction.
After all the walk we have been doing, we had a few more sites to visit, we made the decision to take the bus to the last stops. The last few sites was the MLK Memorial, WWII Memorial, Reflecting Pool and Lincoln Memorial.
As this trip was a fun one I was ready to make a return trip with family and friends. Only down side was that the African American Museum is sold out until October 2017. I highly recommend this for it's educational value that you will receive.