Ashworthwhiles: May 2010

May 7th Stacy and Paul took us around ( I messed up the order of my pictures on accident) This is us by the Lincoln memorial obviously. I can't believe Nelson had the nerve to show up here seeing as he is a descendent of John Wilkes Booth and all. I guess Evy is too. Bummer.

Nelson, Evy and I flew in to Denver May 3rd then D.C. on the 4th. After arriving that afternoon we ate at Union Station, hit the post office museum (zzz...) and walked around the capital. Then my uncle Paul came to get us and we headed to his place. We did a lot of public transportation on this trip. We did the plane, Stacy's car, the bus, the metro and tons of walking.

We are both sooo cute here. It was a long day.

May 5th we went to the air and space museum. I just wanted to introduce Evy to her uniform she'll probably wear someday. Nelson is obsessed with planes (I hate them and have to meditate every time we fly so I don't puke or think of crashing) so we had to go there first. I finally learned how astronauts go to the bathroom in space! Still mad I forgot to buy astronaut ice cream.

Nelson and Evy

We next went to the Museum of American History. I made Nelson pose next to this microscope for my own entertainment since he's a lab nerd.

Museum of natural history. This was probably my favorite museum.

If all goes well this election, we should be living here next.

May 6th Arlington cemetery. So many graves. I can't believe they still bury around 30 people here everyday. There was a funeral taking place while we were there.

Evy sucking on an apple at Robert E. Lee's home at Arlington.
By the way, she was the best traveler ever. She loved every minute of it. We went to the Holocaust museum after this. It was absolutely disgusting in some parts. There were kids on field trips at every museum we went. That day there were tons of teenagers (you're supposed to be over age 12 to enter) and some of them were sobbing uncontrollably at what they saw. Ya, pretty depressing. On our way there we asked for directions. A guy pointed it out to us and said, "The holocaust museum is over there. Have fun! No wait, that's not what I meant..."

Just behind the World War II memorial. Sometimes people we asked to take our picture didn't include Evy in them. Kinda weird. We then went up the Washington Monument. I saw the temple from there.

We went to the Newseum. This was taken from the balcony. The newseum will make you cry. It has the coverage from 911 and the pulitzer prize winning photos since the 1950s. Pretty much every pulitzer prize winning picture was of a tragedy. It was heart wrenching. After this we went to Ford's theatre and to the home where Lincoln died shortly after.