Traveling back in time again…this time to December 2012…we flew from Kansas City to Washington DC via an airplane with a fox on the wing, which we all really dug.

But I will not lie, our time in DC was not as well spent as it could have been. Things were busy and pressured and then of course, the awful news out of Connecticut…

But there is so much to ingest in DC, historically & culturally, I thought I’d take you even further back in time to our 2011 visit…where Michael officially began to Dream the Dream.

MUSEUMS:

(Mind you, what you see below is FAR from a comprehensive list)

They are all free (with the exception of a few like the Spy Museum and the Newseum).  This makes it easy to walk in, spend an hour, walk out, go back the next day.

The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History-Dinosaurs and diamonds make a perfect combination.

National Museum of American History-Our Nation’s preserved history runs the gamut from the Civil War to Dorothy’s slippers.

The National Gallery of Art-Just beautiful.  We went in 2011 when G was just 18 months.  We wandered back again one somber afternoon in 2012 to find it filled with flowers for the holidays.

MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS:

Let’s see—we have the Lincoln Memorial…

…The Jefferson Memorial…

…The World War II Memorial…

…the Washington Monument.

GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS:

The Capital…outside…

…and in…

…The Library of Congress…

…and Watergate, as seen here in the background.  We like to call these 2 shots—The Bourne Identity-Escape From Watergate—where G plays a young Matt Damon.

And then, of course, we have the White House.  You can view it from the front…you can view it from the back…and if you look closely you can find this little button on a gate that does not work any longer, but says Welcome.

For the full 2011 DC posts, click the links below.

Washington DC 2011 Part 1

Washington DC 2011 Part 2

Next stop was NYC.