Day Three found us brave enough to travel by Metro.
Question: How many times can you go the wrong direction on the Metro?
Answer: More times than I will admit to.
I honestly don't know how people who live there can do this every day. I'm sure after awhile it becomes second nature, but for a newbie it sure was confusing. There were 6 different lines to get you around the city...Orange, Blue, Silver, Red, Green and Yellow and some of them rode the same rails. You had to make darned sure you caught the right color train.
We went to several of the Smithsonian Museums on Day Three. This photo is the Smithsonian Castle and is the resting place of Englishman James Smithson who funded these wonderful museums.
James Smithson died in 1829 and although he had never traveled to the US he left an inheritance of $500,000+ to the American government. President Polk established the Smithsonian Institution as a trust and the establishment of the museums started. Smithson's remains were moved from Genoa Italy to the Smithsonian Castle in 1904.
It's kind of a strange story, but we should all be very grateful to him for this legacy.
Here are a few more pictures from our Smithsonian travels.....
This is the Hope Diamond. Can I have just one of the surrounding diamonds please?
This is a modern art piece just outside the original Star Spangled Banner display.
This place was where we ate dinner on Friday evening with Chad Richards (from Stampin' Up! home office) and 3 other demos: Rhonda Wade, Jan McClurg and Christine Miller. It was so nice meeting these ladies and I hope to see them again in January at Leadership.
And this is what I had for dinner. Chicken Pot Pie and it was awesome!!!!
That's all for today. Thanks for coming back and reading about my travels. See you soon.
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