Day 48 - Washington

Today was our one full day in Washington, and today was the one day this week that rain was forecast in Washington. And it rained!! All day!! 😩 But as we only had one day we didn't let it deter us from exploring.

We headed out this morning (walking...in the rain) about 9 ish and walked down our street to The White House!! So cool! Just like you see it in the movies and on television. Secret service men stationed at the front and back.

Then on to the Washington Monument which was surrounded by geese which Kaleb thought was awesome!!

Continued on to the Holocaust Museum which was fairly traumatic. We were unsure about how the kids would go so went to the children's exhibit first called Daniel's Story. It was about a little boy called Daniel who lived in Poland and how his life changed after Hitler came into power. While there we ran into Kelly and Asha who we knew from Perth and are now living in Washington. It was great to see them but we lost them as we headed through the exhibit.

 

The permanent exhibit was very informative and pretty graphic. It's so hard to comprehend that something like that was able to happen. I don't understand how people thought it was okay that these atrocities were happening and so many did nothing. Some great stories though of those people and countries (well Denmark) who did help and not stand by and watch. Made me really sad watching these humans being treated like they were nothing. 😥

Continued our walking tour and went to the World War 11 memorial which was pretty impressive.

Then a long walk past the reflection pool and up to the Lincoln Memorial. We got to stand on the spot where Martin Luther King did his 'I have a dream' speech! Very cool!
We then walked (still raining!) down to the Capitol Building which was quite a bit further away than we thought. We were completely soaked by this point and our feet were squelching in our shoes! 😬

 
 Got some pics at the Capitol and then began the walk back to our hotel. Past the White House again for another look and then back to the room for a warm shower and to use the clothes dryer! Can sneakers go in the dryer?

Finally it stopped raining...now we are all showered & in the room. Couldn't be bothered going out  so we are dining on an extremely unhealthy meal from 7-11! Oh well! We did walk 15 kilometres today!!