Last weekend, we took a trip down to DC with our friends Jenny and Andrew, who used to live in the area. It was cool to see everything again since neither of Anna or I had been to DC in the last 15 years. Normally this is a long time for a city, but in a place where the buildings could probably endure for centuries, not a whole lot has changed. Unfortunately, we didn't have our camera on us for the nighttime tour of the monuments, but we got a few other pictures to show.
The National Cathedral had incredible stained glass. Anna was obsessed with photographing the beautiful reflections that the glass made on the cathedral walls. One window even had a moon rock in it. The cathedral garden is where Andrew surprise-proposed marriage to Jenny a few years ago. We made them re-enact it.
Of course, we went to the Air and Space Museum. Soyouz spacecraft had a really nice peacock blue paint job. Way to go, USSR. My NASA quiz told me my ideal jobs are (in order) 1. heat tile inspector, 2. photographer, 3. spacesuit developer.
The trip to Arlington Cemetery was a beautiful yet sobering reminder of the price of waging war. We saw a changing of the guard ceremony, and then two families who had lost their sons, probably in Iraq, laying wreaths in a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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