Dr. Snow Goes to Washington
Hey, remember that time that I went to Washington? Since I’m on holidays right now, I actually managed to put all my photos into Flickr so now I can show you some of the cool stuff I saw.
I spent the lion’s share of my day that I had for sightseeing at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, where I saw mummies:
including this mummified bull:
And these mummified cats (though some of the mummified cats didn’t actually contain any cat remains! (read the signs below the mummies)):
This lion that was shot by Theodore Roosevelt. Poor, sad looking lion:
I watched a movie about evolution at the Evolution Theatre:
Where I also took this selfie:
Over in the gem section, I took a picture of the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond:
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After leaving the museum, I took a quick jaunt through the sculpture garden outside the Smithsonian National Art Gallery:
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After that, I went to see the Lincoln Memorial, which involved about a half an hour walk along the national mall in the pouring rain. Walked by the Washington Monument:
The WWI Memorial:
The reflecting pool (you can see the Lincoln Memorial at the end):
Once I got there, I actually couldn’t get a good photo of Abe – it was too dark and gloomy out! I did, however, get this photo of what Abraham Lincoln would be looking at if he weren’t just a statue:
When I’d Google Mapped the directions to the Lincoln Memorial, I saw on the map that just up the street was an Albert Einstein Memorial, just outside the National Academies of Science. Despite the fact that I was cold and wet, I decided to tough it out and go see it, since it was my only day for sightseeing (as the conference that I was in Washington for was starting the next day):
And that was the extent of my sight-seeing, as the next day was conference time!
There were soooo many things that I didn’t see, so clearly I’m going to need to go back to see such things as:
- the Holocaust Museum
- the other 16 Smithsonians in Washington, including the zoo
- National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia (which I was told was even cooler than the National Air and Space Museum that’s in DC)
- the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
- the White House
- the Capitol
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