Saturday got off to a little later start than anticipated since we somehow slept in until 8:15! We were still up and out if the hotel by 9ish to catch the metro to get on our hop-on, hop-off trolley tour Matt had booked. The trolley tour ended up being such a good idea on his part; we were able to ride through awhile and then get off when we really wanted to see something. The buses ran about a half hour from each other so there was never much waiting.
We rode through the first 10 stops and got off at the Lincoln memorial, which was pretty amazing. Lincoln is huge! It's really cool how much thought goes into each monument and where it is displayed. While we were in the area we visited the Vietnam war memorial and the Korean war memorial. The Vietnam memorial was designed by a 21-yr old Yale student and she did a fantastic job. Each person is on the wall by date, with the beginning and the end of the war in the middle, not on the ends. The Korean war memorial is also awesome; the statues look like they're alive and they're reflected onto the wall.
We hopped on another trolley that took us to Arlington where we visited the cemetery and watched the changing of the guards- such a peaceful, serene, and sad place. After Arlington we grabbed some lunch and waited for the next trolley to take us back over the bridge; then we walked...a lot. We went to the White House then up to the Washington monument to get a better look. After all that walking we grabbed dinner at the Hard Rock so I could get some pasta to carb up for Sunday's marathon. On the walk home we ran into Larry's ice cream and ate some delicious homemade ice cream. Matt apparently picked Bill Clinton's favorite- mud pie. After a little foot rub for each other we fell asleep to college football.
Here's a lot of pictures...
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