Last Post

Our last day in Washington. We are off to New York by train tomorrow and then flying home as I said in the last post. We made the most of today but are glad we decided not to go on a tour we had booked at The Capitol Building as there was an incident with a woman trying to run policemen down and ramming cars. She was caught but police did fire shots and the incident was solved pretty quickly thank goodness with no injuries. Our tour was at 9.20 a.m and that's when it happened so it was a good day to stay away.
We took another trip on the Big Bus and saw the White House and took photos there before going on to Georgetown for lunch. All in all a good day and nice weather.
There are so many Museums and things to see here you would need months to complete them but we did have a good look at what we could in our few days.

The White House

 A young Aussie took our picture for us!

Panorama

Such pretty flowers we saw today

More......

Georgetown

Odd building......old on the bottom, new on the top!

Union Station where we catch the train. Many nice shops too.

Distant view from the bus of The Capitol Building

Crowd at the White House

Pretty gardens

The oldest building in Washington located in Georgetown.

Fantastic sculpture of Einstein

Washington DC

At last Washington DC, the last few days of our trip before returning to New York by train and flying home. We have taken a ride on the Big Bus today and will again tomorrow as Washington is huge, as was new York, its impossible to walk to everything. We are staying in a hotel right near Union Station, walking distance to The Capitol which is handy so we did walk there on the first afternoon here. Today we went to several of the Smithsonian Museums and also The Lincoln Memorial tonight. We went past The White House and hope to visit it tomorrow. The W. House and The Monument are visually impressive and the sheer size of the buildings here in itself are quite stunning. I prefer our cities much more as they are smaller!
The Cherry Trees, a gift from Japan are in blossom and look beautiful, there are approximately 4000 or more these days. 
Another highlight of today was seeing Dorothy's shoes from The Wizard of Oz.

The White House, view from the bus.

The Theatre that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at.

Pennsylvania Avenue

American Space Suit, there is still moon dust on it, particularly on the legs

Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St Louis

Lovely Cherry Blossom Trees

Sunshine in washington

One of Amelia Earharts planes

Air and Space Museum

Dorothy's shoes from The Wizard of Oz

The Monument

Michelle Obama's Inaugural Dress

Hilary's

Tin lunch boxes from two of my fave shows years ago!

Those gorgeous Cherry Blossoms

Ernie and Bert Donated to The Smithsonian Museum by the Henson family

View of The White House from our bus

The Capitol Building

The Lincoln Memorial

Phoenix Park Hotel where we are staying

The Monument

Stephen on the steps of The Lincoln memorial looking down to The Monument

Another view

Another view of The Thomas Jefferson Memorial

The Capitol

Cityscape

Outside of The Lincoln memorial at night

New York 10

Today, in gloomy, cold weather we took the Subway down to Central Park and then walked the extra klms to The Guggenheim Gallery. This fabulous building is truly the best way the works of Art can be seen, spiralling around the inner walls. We really enjoyed this gallery and the paintings in it.
After going through the six floors of Art works we then went on to Cooper Hewitt, not far up the street, which is a Smithsonian Modern Design Museum, it too held some treasures! It was a lot of fun as well.
I have discovered some new Artists to appreciate on this trip, especially Vasily Kandinsky, vibrant, modern works.
Finally we decided to head over to the Met again and had refreshments before walking home. We have walked 19 klms in the last two days alone, I need to come home to rest.

View across The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis resevoir

Beautiful work

That tourist!

The fabulous Guggenheim

Another fave

Such colour!

Great little Museum

Fab radios in the Hewitt Cooper

What a beauty

At the Met, great displays!

The part of central Park that Stephen trudged through snow only about 5 days or so ago, completely melted now!

Central Park minus the snow, very gloomy weather

View to the top at Guggenheim

Guggenheim Panorama

These suits were so heavy, 23kgs the one on the right

There are a lot of this type of bird in New York, don't know if they're native or not.