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  Washington DC, District of Columbia
Friday, May 18, 2012

We spent one day in Washington DC visiting with Heather's cousin Matthew Smyth. To call the connection 'relative' is tenuous as he is my Great Grandmothers, cousin's husbands great-nephew (as I understand it). However we highly enjoyed visiting with him, he was a very gracious host and we had some great conversations. 

We decided we would do Washington in a day and see as much as possible all by foot. We did pretty well. We managed the Following

- The White House
- The American History Museum
- The Natural History Museum
- The Gardens of the National Gallery
- The US Capitol
- The Native American Museum
- The Air and Space Museum
- The Washington Monument
- The Abraham Lincoln Monument

We also got to see the Presidents limo with the two small American flags at the front, and his helicopter as the G8 summit was going on in Washington while we were there.
We had very sore feet by the end of the day but we decided we are getting good at doing a city in a day, even if it is rushed and exhausting. 

Oh unfortunately there was a lot of construction work going on in Washington. The famous pool of water leading up to the Washington monument was drained for maintenance and Washington Monument itself was closed for repairs due to an earthquake last year.

I hope you enjoy the photos.

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Matthew Smyth's Amazing Washington Map	Matthew, Heather and Marcelo	Matthew's Beautiful City apartment	Affirmed's Bridal - last triple crown winner
Portrait of Ellen (my granny's 2nd cousin)   Comments!	Marcelo in front of the White House	The White House itself	Washington
The Treasury Department	The Treasury Department	The Washington Monument from another angle	Washington Architecture
Washington Smithsonian Museums	Old cars in the Museum of American History	Can you see tiny Marcelo beside this huge train?	Easter Island Statue - Museum of Natural History
Life size snake model, bones found as evidence	Snake Skeletons	Heather and the BIG turtle skeleton	Skeletons of manlike mammals   Comments!
Look at the size of this tarantula!!!!	These may look like dead leaves, look closer.	My worst nightmares, one beside the other.	Natural History Museum big attraction
And here it is, the Hope Diamond   Comments!	The actual shuttle used to save the Chilean Minors	Seen night at the Museum anyone?	Yup this is the T-rex from the movie.
Marcelo, look out!	Mountain Goat - Natural History Museum	The national archives	View of the National archives from the park
Metal tree in gardens of the art gallery	Pyramid in the art park	Washington's roads are huge!	Washington traffic warden - Love it
Washington US Capitol Building and reflecting pool	A family of ducks in the reflecting pool	Marcelo at the US Capitol during G8 summit	Heather at the US Capitol
The botanical gardens glass sculptures	Native American Museum	Marcelo in the native American museum	A painted Tipi
Native Bead Work - where did they get the beads?   Comments!	Totem	Reed boat from Lake Titicaca	Heather at the Native American Museum
Washington	Washington	The Fist Ballistic Missile	Replica of the moon landing Ship
Spaceship	Big Thrusters	One of the actual pods which returned from space	The first plane
Brazil's claim to the first flight	Heather in Washington	Heather, Marcelo and the Washington Monument	Washington Monument - was closed for maintenance
The Abe Lincoln memorial at the end	Washington	Washington	Washington
Heather and the Vietnam memorial	Official Helicopter	Lincoln Memorial	Lincoln Memorial
Lincoln	Heather and Marcelo at the Lincoln Memorial	Lincoln	Lincoln Memorial
Lincoln Memorial	Lincoln Memorial	Heather and Marcelo - the pools are empty :(	Empty reflecting pools
Washington	Washington University	Washington Graduation	Washington from the air
Washington from the air

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