Part 2 of Vacation

... part 2: Philly was great. For a political advocate, standing in the room were our independence and constitution were created was like a religious pilgrimage. I stood in awe and imagined the many arguments for and against treason against the King. We also visited the boarding house were Jefferson wrote the declaration and Washington stayed while planning the war against Britain. Benjamin Franklin has always been a idol of mine. It was his calm and wisdom that we have the great constitution we have today. He also was one of the greatest inventors of that time. Just standing in the spots these great people stood brings alive our history. After visiting these great sights, we had dinner at this market next to the convention center and about 8 blocks away from our hotel. As we were walking back, a strong wind came up and down came the rain, in buckets. We rushed into a covered bus shelter for cover. We asked this 20's something guy if the bus went in our needed direction. To our relief it would stop only a hundred feet from our hotel. When it arrived, we jumped on and headed for our lair. It would have been nice to have more time in Philly, but Washington DC was awaiting our arrival.

In DC we stayed in a motel in the out skirts, Falls Church, VA. We took the Metro into DC for our walking from museum to museum and monument to monument. We had requested the special tour of the White House and Capital from Rep. Matheson's office, but we did not make the OK list, so we saw it from afar. We did get to go up in the Washington Monument and see it from that vantage point. I think Effy said we walked about 11 kilometer that day. We also visited the new American Indian Museum, Natural History, Air & Space, and both Art Museums. Judy and I have been there before, so we wanted Lilli and Effy to see what they found most interesting. That is another place you can spend a week and not see it all. On our route to Virginia Beach, we stopped at Mt. Vernon and again I was in awe being in George Washington's home and plantation. They have a new museum with forensically created wax models of George from his youth to his 50's.

More in later posts...