Day Three: Washington DC Trip

Washington, DC: Day three started with breakfast at the hotel. We enjoyed room service breakfast before beginning our day of touring the city. After breakfast we hopped on the tour bus at the stop in front of our hotel and began the bus tour.

We traveled the bus tour through northwest DC, Embassy Row, Georgetown and out into Arlington National Cemetery. We rode the tour until it reached the south side of the National Mall where we disembarked for lunch.

Lunch was at the food court of the Air and Space Museum. We ate at the cafeteria and sampled some space ice cream. We browsed a few of the first floor exhibits before heading back out on the street. We did not go into detail in the museum since we planned on retuning tomorrow.

We headed on foot towards the US Capitol, taking in the sites along the way of the Supreme Court, Library of Congress and the Congressional office buildings. We continued walking towards Union Station and the National Postal Museum.

We then toured the National Postal Museum. The museum took a look back at the history of the postal service and mail delivery service throughout the years. My son created a postcard and mailed them back home before we left.

After completing the tour of the National Postal Museum, we hopped back on the bus, this time enroute to the National Cathedral. We took a docent tour of the cathedral that included the smaller chapels along the sides of the cathedral, several of the tombs and the catacombs beneath the church.

Following the cathedral, we then took the double decker bus back into town and to the hotel. The exhausted from all the places we visited in the little time in town started to set in. We spent some time relaxing at the hotel and grabbing dinner in the room.

After a few hours of relaxation, we decided to hit the town one more time before it got too late. This time we headed over to Madame Tussauds Washington. The museum contained wax replicas of politician, celebrities and sports star. Several of the figures were interactive and all of them appeared life like.

We completed the night with our nightly stroll around the White House before heading back to the hotel to complete the day.

For more pictures from the trip, visit my Washington DC photo page.

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