Visiting DC

During our second day in DC, we found a delicious Peruvian restaurant in the Hispanic District of DC which served a delicious roasted chicken. We were the only ones in the restaurant speaking English, due to Brian's lack of Spanish.

We visited two of the Smithsonian Museums, the National Museum of Natural History and the Air and Space Museum. The minerals and gemstone were fascinating, specifically the diamonds of extrordinary size, the minerals with interesting shapes sizes and colors, and the exhibits of minerals and gems from Brasil.

The Natural History Museum also had a very interesting Earthquake exhibit, complete with a world map, detailing earthquake locations from the past two weeks (yellow circles, radius corresponds to magnitude) and the past five years (puple dots).

The Washington Monument was closed when we arrived so we couldn't take any pictures from the top observation deck, but they graciously allowed us to take all of the pictures we wanted from the bottom observation deck, aka, the ground.

And what is any trip without a beautiful picture of Karen, albeit, a very fatigued Karen who had walked several miles around DC that day.