No visit is complete without a visit to a zoo! At least in my books anyway. Sometimes I think I went to college for the wrong thing & should’ve been a zoologist.
Anyways, we spent the day sweating out the heat & humidity by exploring the National Zoo –free of charge!
“Hey sweet cheeks.”
Someone sneezed on me while I was perusing the National Art Gallery yesterday & I ended up catching something (thanks buddy, whoever you are). I spent all day yesterday downing medicine. Today I felt a bit better, enough to venture out but by the end of the day, I think I made myself worse. Don’t worry –I didn’t sneeze on anyone when I went exploring.
My first stop, the Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle). What a disappointment! The outside promises exhibits of wonders inside.
Sadly, that is not the case. The Castle was mostly filled with fat, sweaty tourists sitting around avoiding the heat.
My next stops were much much more interesting: National Museum of American History & Ford’s Theatre
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The National Gallery of Art is so vast, you’d need at least 2 days to enjoy it in its entirety. I had 3 hours but I was there 3 years ago & got to view some great pieces then.
The two main pieces I wanted to see were the Capitoline Venus and the Declaration of Independence in stone (which I didn’t get a photo of –I don’t think we were allowed):
One of my favorite thing about DC is that there are a plethora of free museums all over the district (although… is it really free since they’re funded by our tax dollars?). One of the downsides to it being free though is that it is almost ALWAYS packed with tourists –ourselves included. Despite that, we spent the week visiting various museums. Yesterday we visited the National Portrait Gallery, today the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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