Monday: Tour of the Capitol

So we started our journey at the Forest Glen Metro station. (Train=cool-just like in the movies.) We rode the train into Union Station & headed to The US Capitol. We tried to do a tour at the Library of Congress but we had to make our tour at the Capitol, so we just went inside the Library of Congress for a few minutes then headed to Senator Bennets office. We toured the US Capitol with an intern from Sen. Bennets office. Its a more personalized tour of different rooms in the Capitol. It was really neat. The rotunda was HUGE. Amazing. It hurt my head trying to look up at it all. There is just SO much information to take in-so many things about the history of the building, the artwork, the architecture. We didn't get to see the rooms where the senators & legislatures do their voting (as seen on CSPAN) but it was still neat to see everything. LONG LONG tour. Lots of time on our feet, but well worth it.

We ended the day in DC with a stop at The Good Stuff Eatery. GREAT burger joint! Our tour person recommended it for the shakes, but the food was great! (and we were hungry!)

We did stop at the National Archives to see the Declaration of Independence and the other documents of our countries beginnings. Cool stuff. Amazed at the technology used to preserve things.