Today's Washington DC highights

After a great rest and a big breakfast of  homemade waffles and eggs, the Greenhills girls headed off for a guided tour of famous Washington DC Memorials. Some of the most impressive parts of the tour were the Lincoln Memorial, also the site of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech during the US Civil Rights struggle.

American School Bus!

 

 

The Great Depression (Roosevelt Memorial)

 

Lincoln Memorial

 

 

 

Roosevelt Memorial

Martin Luther King Memorial

Korean War Memorial

 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial displayed the names of 58,000 Americans who died in the Vietnam War from 1959 to 1975, a sobering display. Our next stop was Arlington cemetery, where J. F. Kennedy, his wife Jackie and other family members are buried. The morning ended with the changing of the guard ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, commemorating soldiers who lost their lives in both World Wars, and the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

 

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

 

After lunch, we headed for the Mall, where the majority of

Washington's museums are located.  Our first afternoon stop was the Museum of American History, where we saw an original Huey helicopter used in Vietnam and the Greensboro lunch counter as part of an African American exhibit. After an evening stroll through the National Gallery of Art's Sculpture Garden and a quick stop at the Ford Theater (where Lincoln was assassinated), we had dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe.  To end another exciting day, we had a coffee in Starbucks Chinatown on our way back to our hotel.