The Holy HOT Weekend/Week

The weekend my mom was here we had absolutely beautiful weather. The week after she left was a whole different story! The week was scorching hot, with an extreme amount of humidity, which is one of the many reasons I miss Colorado, (but that is better left for a later post).

During this week of miserable heat, Elena and I spent every evening at the pool, just cooling off! We would spend about 35-45 minutes at the pool before coming inside and doing a workout in our living room! It was a good way to spend the evenings.

After a week of spending time inside, we were ready to get our and tour by time the weekend started. Saturday we started pretty late after spending the morning sleeping in. We first headed to the National Building Museum, that features the advancement of buildings through the different World's Fairs in America. We also paid to tour the Lego exhibit that featured many major buildings around the world that were built in Legos. Some are pictured below.

After we were done looking at that museum, we headed out into the heat to view the Law Enforcement Memorial and even found some guys from Salida that were named on the wall.  After that we decided to walk  (how dumb right?) to the Navy Memorial. We lasted about 2 minutes at the memorial before we had to head to an air conditioned building. It was miserable! We then wanted to head to the Newseum, but when we got there and found out it cost $22, we decided against it, for the time being. We then headed to Ford's Theatre to see if we could tour it. It was about 3 when headed there, and all the tickets for the rest of the afternoon were sold out.

As if we hadn't done enough that day, we decided to head to Union Station to see what it was all about. We were so hot that we weren't that impressed, plus there wasn't much there. One downfall to our time here is that we don't want to spend too much money, so we really aren't getting to enjoy the different food that DC has to offer, which would have been a good thing to do at Union station. That finally ended our day out in the heat. We were happy to get home to our wonderful air conditioning.

Sunday we got up somewhat early, and headed to Arlington National Cemetery. We got tickets to ride on the bus to The Tomb of the Unknown Soilder, the Kennedy Grave, and the Arlington House. After we rode the bus to all those, watched the changing of the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider, and walked around that area, we headed to the opposite side of the Cemetery to see all the memorials the bus misses. One of these was a pentagon, September 11th Memorial. We were booking it all around the Cemetery, as we needed to head home by 1 to eat lunch before heading to our new destination. By time we were walking all around there, we were hot, tired, hungry, thirsty and behind schedule. We headed home for a quick lunch before heading to Ford's Theatre, the place where Lincoln was shot. It had a museum in the basement and then headed into the theater where Lincoln was shot for a presentation. It was a pretty neat to see!

After all that, we decided we had a had a full weekend and decided to head home for the night to relax before a long week at work and after a busy weekend of touring.

Sorry the pictures are out of order. (More pictures will come tomorrow when I get them from Elena)

 Falling Water out of Legos

 Union Station

 Waiting outside Ford's Theatre

 The Arlington House from Below

 The Eternal Flame at the Kennedy Gravesite

 Arlington Cemetery

 Changing of the Guards

 Changing of the Guards

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