We had an amazing weekend with family coming to visit. We loved catching up and spending time together. We explored some of DC’s best museums and sights and the weather could not have been more perfect. We visited the National Archives and read the original Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, Bill of Rights, and Magna Carta. It was incredible!
We also spent an afternoon at the Newseum, an interactive museum focused on news and journalism. It features impressive exhibits such as the News History Gallery, Front Pages From Across America and Around the World, Pulitzer Prize Photographs Gallery, and the Journalists Memorial: A Tribute to Journalists Who Have Died Pursuing the News. The “G-Men and Journalists” exhibit features artifacts from the FBI’s evidence vaults including John Dillinger’s machine gun, evidence from the Lindbergh kidnapping, airplane engine and parts from 9/11, cellphones and pagers recovered from the debris of the World Trade Center, the shoe bomber’s shoe bombs, and the Unabomber’s cabin. There is also a portion of the original Berlin Wall.
On Sunday we went for a nice walk in Arlington. We saw the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, and Changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns.
Our last evening together we visited Georgetown, the Jefferson Memorial, Tidal Basin, and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial.
The Newseum:
A portion of the original Berlin Wall:
The view of Pennsylvania Avenue from the Terrace:
9/11 Gallery:
In the News History Gallery and its timeline of newspaper publications there is an erroneous headline from 1948 Chicago Sun Times:
Always running into the Segway tours:
The National Gallery:
The Smithsonian:
The National Mall:
Arlington National Cemetery:
Fall colors in Georgetown:
Monuments at night on the Tidal Basin:
