Dec. 9

Dec 9,
Gene and I decided to go back to DC one more time. These are really long, 10 to 12 hr., days. Our first stop was the Renwick Gallery. This museum exhibits the finest work in American craft. The 1858 building is an architectural landmark on the President’s Park. There was an exhibit of glass works that was breathtakingly beautiful.
We then walked over to the White House. There we met two women from Hawaii. One of the women went to the same high school as the Pres. Elect. She is going home and coming back for the election. She knows someone that works in one of the buildings that will overlook the inauguration. She also mentioned that his high school band will be marching.
We then walked to the war memorials and the Lincoln Memorial. The last memorial was the new World War II memorial that just was completed in 2004. The next stop was the American History Museum. We went through an exhibit about all the wars from the Revolutionary to today’s war. We then limped to another exhibit that had artifacts from Judy Garland’s red slippers to Roberto Clemente’s uniform (he was a great baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates and a humanitarian. By then our backs and feet were killing us. We had been walking for 5 hours. I have a blister on my toe. We went downstairs and sat DOWN for a sandwich and then left for home.
Don’t know if I mentioned it but all the museums are free in DC.