A Day in DC

As our friends Rosy and Robert came down for the weekend from Boston, we had a nice tourist day in DC - Rosy is English and has never been to DC and Robert is from upstate New York, so although he has been here, it was an 8th grade field trip or similar.  So we all played tourist.  It was the same day as the memorial 50th anniversary March on Washington, but later in the day, so not quite so crowded.  This is the National Gallery, where my mother went during the day.

The weather was gorgeous. 

Other than my mother, we went to the Museum of the American Indian (she's been a couple of times recently, so decided to do something else, and lucked out with an exhibit about the Ballet Rousse at the National Gallery). 

First, we had lunch in the cafe. I had a selection of sides - fried green plantains, roasted squash with peppers, and a grilled watermelon and heirloom tomato salad. 

Alex had buffalo chili cheese fries. As it was a huge helping, some of the rest of us had some as well...

We had a wander around, looked at pottery

read about various Indian cultures, 

listened to tradtional stories, 

looked at fertility statues

and so on. 

Then we headed out of the museum to see the sights of the Mall - here's a Segway tour heading towards the museum - there were quite a few segway tours tooling around - looked like fun!

We headed down to the Lincoln Memorial - you can still see lots of people assembled on the steps, many of whom were remnants of the morning's march. 

The recycling bins were overflowing all along the Mall, and we passed trucks gradually picking up all the recycling - I bet it took the rest of the day!

Some of the more tired members of the party waited at the World War II memorial while the rest  of us walked down to the Lincoln Memorial. 

We then wandered over to the Korean Memorial, but I didn't take any photos there (I have before, when I've seen it, just was very tired by this time - two days on my feet all day in a row is harder than it used to be for me!)...  And then home.  A lovely day.