Easter week :part two :Washington D.C.

Saturday morning

we gathered together, then split

up into two vans..

The "womens" in the Mama van...

and the menfolk in the Gamma van..

we proceeded up I-95 to the Metro station..

and caught the commuter train into Washington D.C.
Michael loves Choo-choo trains!

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It was a very wet and drizzly kind of day..

Michael came prepared

getting out of the wet we headed into

the

Smithsonian Air & Space Museum...

Now, let me tell you that in my life time I thought

I had experienced "crowded"...

but not until that day had I ever been Really crowded!

People were everywhere you looked and tried to walk..

and I am not real sure but it seemed that we could

have been about the only ones speaking "English"

I could not even begin to venture a guess

at how many different languages I over heard!!

The exhibits were very interesting..

My two favorite parts were the very OLD airplanes

and the Space exhibit...

Seeing the Apollo capsule , the Lunar rover

and the space rocks

WOW!

I felt like it was 1969 all over again!!

The only thing

I NEVER did care for

was the way

they sent those poor little monkeys

into space...

still looks cruel to me..

Pap-paw really seemed to enjoy the exhibits!

We all enjoyed going and spending time together.

After our visit to the museum we caught

the sight seeing trolley right outside at the curb

and took a gander at a good part of Washington...

We got off at the Union Station

to partake of the fare from one of its forty

restaurants..

When our hunger was sufficiently abated

we rejoined another trolley and finished the loop around

the city..ending close to the Metro station

in order to head back to the vans and Virginia...

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On the way back in the van..

Michael wanted to try his aquired camera skills...

so without further ado

lets take a nice long look at the young mans

art.

Ladies and Gentlemen our next

Ansel Adams!

one little finger and the windshield

toes

and more toes

Gamma.

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