East Coast Adventure: Washington D.C.

Just an Outline of our trip to Washington D.C.

Things We Saw

• Lincoln Memorial

• Korean War Memorial
• Washington Monument
• Albert Einstein Memorial

• US Capitol Building

• Ben Franklin Statue

• "Occupy DC" camp

• White House

• The house where Lincoln died

• The National Christmas Tree

Places We went

• Georgetown
• Walked around the canals admiring the old brick buildings that stood tall and proud. 
• Went shopping
• Old Stone House, built in 1765, is the oldest known private home in Washington, DC.
• More Shopping

• America Eats Tavern where we ate some classic American food with its own history

• FRIED CHICKEN WITH CATSUP (Jennifer)
  Gordonsville, Virginia, 1869
  Deep-fried foods, first introduced by Spanish and Portugese slave-traders, are the living history that links the South and the Mediterranean. During the civil war, women sold fried chicken from trays balanced on their heads to soldiers along the C&O railroad in Gordonsville.
  
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• OYSTER PO’ BOY (John)
  Clovis and Benjamin Martin, New Orleans, 1925
  The Martins worked as streetcar conductors before they opened their restaurant in the French Market. So when the transit workers went on strike, they supported the ‘‘poor boys’’ by giving them free sandwiches through the end of their popular but violent struggle. Seafood was abundant and cheap at the time. It was also easier to eat than the traditional leftover roasts.

• Ford Theater

• United States Botanic Garden

Awesome FREE Museums we Perused

• American Art Museum
• American History Museum
• American Indian Museum (John's favorite)
• Natural History Museum (Jennifer's favorite)

• Postal Museum

• Smithsonian Institution Building,
  The Castle

 

Good OLD Georgetown

Along the Canal in Georgetown

A penny for your thoughts

Korean War Memorial

Jumping for joy

Jumping for ...

Einstein is the best storyteller

One hellova post office

Marine One taking off from the White House Lawn

Photo of a photo

Photo of a painting, the White House long ago

Fried Chicken

Po' Boy

Lincolns last view

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HOPE to see this again

D.C. sure does have some large cockroaches

RIP

Cecil, this one's for you

Julia Child's knife setup... want

Oh hey! We're still on for lunch this Tuesday, right?

Thomas Jefferson's bible

Capitol Christmas tree from California!

Natural art from the Botanic Garden

I always wondered what those words meant

Some lively Christmas ornaments

"Hey baby."