Washington DC was definitely my favorite big city that we have been to on this trip. But if you consider the fact that none of the big cities even made their way into my “like” category, it doesn’t mean a whole lot. One of the reasons why I liked it was because it seemed so much more open and bright. That probably has partly to do with the buildings being so much shorter than normal big city skyscrapers. My uncle told us that they were all like that because they were all required to be shorter than the Capitol building. We visited lots of places, but seeing the outsides of everywhere was usually my favorite part of it.
Museums
We went to a lot of museums. They all had one thing in common- they all had a TON of money put into them. They all seemed like they had put so much money into the buildings, they were so huge and beautiful. But, inside they seemed like they were so empty and had very limited, simple information, -with LOTS of technology of course. In the Bible museum everyone was able to get their own tablet( at no extra cost). The tablet came with a headpiece too so that when you went into a room they would talk about it. The weirdest thing is that the kids had “games” where they could fight other people around them. A lot of the exhibits were videos that were all so dramatic. A lot of the museums were like that. They seemed to be geared toward people who had very short attention spans.
Capitol, Library of Congress, and Cathedral
When we visited the Capitol we had to take a guided tour where the lady spent most of her time talking about the paintings, statues, and stuff like that. The places that I most wanted to see were sadly off-limits, but at least we were able to see a little bit of the inside of the it.
The Library of Congress was pretty cool. I wasn’t able to get any good pictures because we were only able too see it from a small, glassed off area that people were filed through quickly.
The Cathedral was definitely my favorite. It was so beautiful. It was really fun too because we were able to go wander around it by ourselves. We were only able to see two of the seven stories, but that was amazing compared to everywhere else we went. There were also some strange things about it. We heard that all different religions use it. They said that there is Buddhist, Hindu, Native American, and more, services there. In the shop we saw all sorts of strange things. There were books by Hilary Clinton, Buddhist shrines, books about cats being divine messengers of comfort, and all sorts of other strange things that I didn’t even bother to give more than a glance. It didn’t seem right at all.
