A downpour the night we drove into D.C. but still a thrill to see the scale of the monuments and consider the scale of the courage and challenge of nudging our country into birth and to a cradle of ideas to nurture freedom and democracy.
On our own Sunday. After a Sacrament meeting with our tour group, we went to St. John's, the Church of the Presidents and stood behind Abraham Lincoln's pew where he came late and alone and left early to get back to the White House.
Monday, we went to Arlington and the Iwo Jima Memorial, we said good-bye to our tour friends and did some more of the Smithsonians. Tuesday am we had an amazing tour of the Library of Congress, went to the Senate Gallery where we learned that all the floor speeches are now transmitted closed circuit to Congressional offices the only people listening in the Senate Chamber are the tourists! Something odd about that. We heard a senator from Washington and John McCain encourage more unemployment and the unmanageable immensity of the Health Care bill respectively. We then went to the Post Cereal Heiress' Margery Merriweather Post's estate where the largest Russian imperial art outside of Russia is collected. It was RICH! The Grounds were beautiful. We then were blessed to enjoy a session at the WDC temple, which, thankfully had just opened that night after being closed for a broken water main for a week. Tender Mercies!
Hillwood Japanese Garden
A downpour the night we drove into D.C. but still a thrill to see the scale of the monuments and consider the scale of the courage and challenge of nudging our country into birth and to a cradle of ideas to nurture freedom and democracy.
On our own Sunday. After a Sacrament meeting with our tour group, we went to St. John's, the Church of the Presidents and stood behind Abraham Lincoln's pew where he came late and alone and left early to get back to the White House.
Monday, we went to Arlington and the Iwo Jima Memorial, we said good-bye to our tour friends and did some more of the Smithsonians. Tuesday am we had an amazing tour of the Library of Congress, went to the Senate Gallery where we learned that all the floor speeches are now transmitted closed circuit to Congressional offices the only people listening in the Senate Chamber are the tourists! Something odd about that. We heard a senator from Washington and John McCain encourage more unemployment and the unmanageable immensity of the Health Care bill respectively. We then went to the Post Cereal Heiress' Margery Merriweather Post's estate where the largest Russian imperial art outside of Russia is collected. It was RICH! The Grounds were beautiful. We then were blessed to enjoy a session at the WDC temple, which, thankfully had just opened that night after being closed for a broken water main for a week. Tender Mercies! 
Hillwood Japanese Garden
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