On Wednesday morning we were leaving NY. We woke up and walked a couple blocks to a breakfast joint named Evergreens. It was delicious, I had a big cinnamon roll with some fruit while my mom had Belgian Waffles. Shortly after we then walked to Penn Station where we took a train all the way to Washington, D.C.! We checked into our hotel room, then dropped off our bags, then headed to the SPY Museum. At the Spy Museum they showed some of the things our spies and other countries' spies used in the olden days like: the shoe as a transmitter and the cigarette pack as a camera. I thought it was interesting learning that there are actually real spies like in the movies.
That night we went to see my mom's friend Sandra who has two 4.5 year old kids and lives in Maryland.
This day was very busy. To start off the day we went to the US Capitol. At the Capitol we had a toured visit given by an intern from Senator Hatch's office. The US Capitol is very big. They even have an underground subway just to themselves. At the museum we first watched a short movie about the Capitol. After the movie we got to go to the Rotunda. In there they had statues and paintings. Therotunda is the big dome of the capital. Currently the dome si under construction because of cracks in it. Each state has two statues. Our two statues from Utah are of Brigham Young and the man who invented the television tube. At the Capitol we also got to see where the President is Inaugurated and what was supposed to be Washington's tomb below the dome, but he was buried at Mount Vernon his home instead. We went and watched the House of Representatives in a meeting. The meeting is televised so that the other Representatives can watch it from their offices. There are 435 Representatives throughout the Unite States. Currently Utah has 4 Representatives. The next session we watched was the Senate. Each State has two senators that serve six year terms. Our Senators are Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee.
For lunch we went to Union Station. There I got a delicious milkshake. Currently Union Station is under renovation. It is Washington D.C's oldest train station. We had to scurry out from lunch to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for there last tour. What they do there is make money. There are two places where there are dollar factories. Washington, D.C. and Texas. At this factory they make the $1, $2, $5, $20 bills. Each bill has to redesigned every 5-7 years except for the $1 bill. There is a law to keep the one dollar bill the same forever. I personally thought the $2 bill wasn't made any more. But only once every couple years do they print them.
We then walked over to the National Archives. On the way over we walked through the Smithsonian's Sculpture Garden. There were very famous sculptures in there. I liked one of the modern sculptures that looked like a metal tower made out of matchsticks.
At the National Archives we saw the Declaration of Independence which declared our independence from the British on July 4, 1776. We also saw the Constitution which was signed on Sept 17, 1787 and stated how our new government would be run. The Bill of Rights was there too, it was added to the Constitution to protect individual's rights in 1789. We also saw a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation that was signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, which freed the black slaves.
We went to dinner with my two uncles and their friend tonight at Hamilton's. The food was great and it was fun to see my uncles.
That night we went to see my mom's friend Sandra who has two 4.5 year old kids and lives in Maryland.
This day was very busy. To start off the day we went to the US Capitol. At the Capitol we had a toured visit given by an intern from Senator Hatch's office. The US Capitol is very big. They even have an underground subway just to themselves. At the museum we first watched a short movie about the Capitol. After the movie we got to go to the Rotunda. In there they had statues and paintings. Therotunda is the big dome of the capital. Currently the dome si under construction because of cracks in it. Each state has two statues. Our two statues from Utah are of Brigham Young and the man who invented the television tube. At the Capitol we also got to see where the President is Inaugurated and what was supposed to be Washington's tomb below the dome, but he was buried at Mount Vernon his home instead. We went and watched the House of Representatives in a meeting. The meeting is televised so that the other Representatives can watch it from their offices. There are 435 Representatives throughout the Unite States. Currently Utah has 4 Representatives. The next session we watched was the Senate. Each State has two senators that serve six year terms. Our Senators are Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee.
For lunch we went to Union Station. There I got a delicious milkshake. Currently Union Station is under renovation. It is Washington D.C's oldest train station. We had to scurry out from lunch to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for there last tour. What they do there is make money. There are two places where there are dollar factories. Washington, D.C. and Texas. At this factory they make the $1, $2, $5, $20 bills. Each bill has to redesigned every 5-7 years except for the $1 bill. There is a law to keep the one dollar bill the same forever. I personally thought the $2 bill wasn't made any more. But only once every couple years do they print them.
We then walked over to the National Archives. On the way over we walked through the Smithsonian's Sculpture Garden. There were very famous sculptures in there. I liked one of the modern sculptures that looked like a metal tower made out of matchsticks.
At the National Archives we saw the Declaration of Independence which declared our independence from the British on July 4, 1776. We also saw the Constitution which was signed on Sept 17, 1787 and stated how our new government would be run. The Bill of Rights was there too, it was added to the Constitution to protect individual's rights in 1789. We also saw a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation that was signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, which freed the black slaves.
We went to dinner with my two uncles and their friend tonight at Hamilton's. The food was great and it was fun to see my uncles.
Statue of Freedom replica in the Capitol Museum, the real one stands on top of the Capitol
Brigham Young's statue inside the Capitol
9-11 remembrance for the plane that went down and didn't hit the Capitol
Union Station
Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C.
Times Square
Breakfast at Evergreens in NYC
Spy Museum's copy of the Rosetta Stone
Looking out over DC from our hotel room
Inside the Hart Building where Senator's Hatch office is next to the Calder Sculpture
The Rotunda at the Capitol
Outside the National Archives Building
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