Our Everyday Life

Part 20 here
We came to the hotel pretty early and decided to go for a walk a little bit. Right under our building was a passageway to the subway station. We wanted to go and look to the National Monument. After studying the subway map we found a station we need to exit at. It is interesting that the pricing depends on rush hour (more expensive) and station popularity, maybe? Because travel to Smithsonian station was cheaper than to Metro Station, and Metro Station was closer.

Trains don’t come very often – every 24 minutes, maybe it is true for non-rush hours only, I don’t know. While we were busy with buying the tickets, we missed the train that we need to ride. But there is a informational table that shows line color and time of the next train that stops here.

When we left the train and went out it was darkened. The National Monument was lit up and was very imposing. The pathways leading to it were closed due to reconstruction, but we found a way around. While walking, we remembered how Captain America was jogging here and yelled ‘On your left!’. The pleasant wind was near the Monument and all mosquitoes that desired to try some Oregonian blood, were blown away. But they lay in wait for us when we will go back 🙁

The next morning we came here again, to see the White House, National Spy Museum, the FBI building, National Archive and Smithsonian Museum of Nature. As it happened with us a lot that trip, we’ve changed our plans on a fly. Originally I didn’t think we would visit Washington DC, so I didn’t spend much time exploring information about it. But what I’ve learned recently, it is possible to get inside the White House. You just need to ask for a permission from your congressmen about 6 monthes in advance of the trip. Well, good to know! The tour inside the White House includes 5 rooms.

In the National Spy Museum we’ve look to the history of espionage and some Bond-related things and facts. At the entrance we were suggested to remember fake person biographical data, at the exit we should successfully go through the custom to consider our mission as success. Apparently Ira and Pavlik were able to complete their missions even the custom officer was a little bit suspicious, but me and Kate was departed with a shame 😀

It was fun to crawl inside the air vent and spy on people who walked below us.

After very pleasant cool interior of the museum we went to the hot street. Luckily we should walk very far – here is FBI building and next to it was the National Archive. Honestly, we went inside to look to the Declaration of Independence only.

In the Smithsonian Museum of Nature there are a lot of different expositions, and we went to see the Bones and Mummies. Some of the skeletons looks very funny, but snakes were very disgusting and even scary. So no snake skeleton picture here.

Day went by very fast. It is time to go to hotel and have something for dinner. But before that dad and kids went to the swimming pool while I was busy with pictures and blog.

Part 22 here