Day 1: Holocaust Museum - The People's House - The International Spy Museum

What a day!  We had tickets for the Holocaust Museum at 10:30 a.m.  Since the last time we were in D.C. nearly every place you visit now requires a timed-entry ticket.  Mostly the tickets are free but you need a ticket to enter.  This means no more visiting DC without plans.  I spent several weeks getting tickets and organizing the schedule.  Today was our first days of having a schedule for the day.  

Hunter rode in the front seat so he could direct Papaw to the Orange Line, New Carrollton Metro Station.  We left at 8:30 thinking we had plenty of time... we were wrong!  First of all there was lots of traffic and second the parking lot we had planned to park in was not available.  After a series of turn arounds and backtracking, we found a parking lot.  We did make it to the Holocause Museum by 10:30.

Wall of pictures of holocaust victims.  Throughout the museum there were reminders of those who died in the holocaust.

The doors of a Jewish synagoge.

Replica of train cars used to transport people to the concentration camps.

After the Holocaust Museum we went to the People's House which was a new place for us to visit.  This building was across the street of the People's House and is the Dwight David Eisenhower Office Building.  I thought it was interesting architecture.

In the People's House there was a replica of the Oval Office and we took pictures of each of us sitting at the desk.

Also at the People's House was a green room where you could take a picture of youself with a White House room as a background and then have it e-mailed to you.  This was Keegan's picture.

This is our picture.

The International Spy Museum.  By this time of day Carol and I were tired so we opted out of going inside.  Inside we sat in the food court of a nearby food court and rested our feet.

The museum also had a display of the vehicles used in most of the James Bond movies.  Keegan took this picture of one of them.

This is what traffic is like at 5:00 p.m.

We arrived back at the campsite around 6:00 p.m.  Everyone was very tired and found a chair in which to relax.  Quiet reigned in the RV.  Everyone was very still and was trying to recover from the busy day.  After and hour of so, we began to stir...me to work on my blog, Hunter and Keegan to play miniature golf, Kara to continue to sleep, and Carol to the showers.  We all decided that we need to go to bed early because tomorrow will be another busy day and we need to be on the road early.  Tomorrow will also be a late night because we are taking a Monuments by Night tour from the campgound and won't be home from the tour until after 10.  There probably won't be a blog tomorow!

I had more pictures I wanted to include but time has run out for me...everyone else is in bed and I need to follow suit.