The Lammers: 01.2012

This day was the longest day of the whole trip! We did so much walking and sightseeing that we were out for more than 12 hours and we had walked at least 10 miles. That said, this post will most likely be very long and full of pictures :)

We started the day by going to the National Air and Space Museum. We saw lots of things there including some spaceships, Wright flyers, Spirit of St. Louis, rockets, and pieces of Mars and the moon.

Rich in front of an engine

Amelia Earheart's Plane, The Lockheed

Replica of the first plane to ever fly

by the Wright Brothers

Actual propeller from the original Wright plane

Space Suit

Rocket Engine

It was HUGE!

Then we wondered on over the the National Gallery of Art East Building. The east building is the more modern art and the west building is where all of the Classical art is held. We walked around the east building pretty fast because there really wasn't a whole lot to see, just some really large pieces and really awkward shaped spaces.

Adam being the art

Arcimboldo piece...My Favorite!

It was really large as you can see in the background of the previous picture.

Picasso

This is the walkway between the east and west building. The lights would change all the time.

Super awkward huge elevator in the east building

Too bad we don't have a picture of the tiny one!

Then we went to eat because it was about dinner time. We walked up to Chinatown and got some food at...wait for it...an Irish pub! It was delicious food, but pretty funny that we didn't eat something Chinese.

Next we walked over to the National Portrait Gallery and wondered through that for a little bit. There weren't very many interesting things, just painting after painting of presidents and famous people. There was a really interesting little gallery in one of the rooms that featured numerous Norman Rockwell paintings and drawings. There were things in the collection like pencil drawings of something he would paint later and then the painting hung next to the drawing. It was so neat to see the slight changes he made before he painted it and to look at the drawings and see the smudge marks from the pencil. It was so cool!

After we left the portrait gallery, we walked past the Ford Theater where Lincoln was shot and the house across the street where he died.

It was such a beautiful night, so we decided that we were going to go see all of the monument at night when they were all lit up. The sun was just starting to set on our walk to the monuments.