Washington D.C. Part 2

Here are more photos from my day in Washington, D.C. For a girl that wants to work in a museum one day, I was seriously in heaven.

Flight attendant uniforms
at the Air and Space Museum

John Glenn's space suit

"I have a feeling that there is just one more flight in my system."  -  Amelia Earhart, June 1, 1937 before what would become her last flight.  

Woolworth's lunch counter from Greensboro, NC sit-ins

World War II canning poster at NMAH

NMAH

JFK's inauguration

Filing cabinet broken into at Watergate at NMAH 

Berlin Wall at NMAH

Library of Congress

Creating the United States

Hope for America: Performers, Politics and Pop Culture

Hope for America jukebox

Above is a screen shot of a jukebox from the Library of Congress politics and pop culture exhibit that played songs about political or social issues.  I listened to snippets of a lot of my favorites from the 1960s and 1970s, but played this entire song in honor of my mom, who introduced me to Aretha when I was just a young little thing.

Baltimore and D.C. Part 1

My last stop in my tour of the northeast over spring break was Baltimore to visit my longtime friend Liza.  We have been friends since 1st grade.  Unfortunately, Liza found out the day of my arrival that she had to go to Florida for the weekend for work.  Her lovely roommates, Ellie and Eleana, were gracious enough to host me for the rest of the weekend.

Laura, me and Liza circa 1996

Liza, me and Laura - 2007 Senior Prom 

Laura, Liza, Krista, me and Allie - Christmas 2010

Since we had a change of plans, I decided to go to D.C. during the day on Saturday and hopped on the train early in the morning and returned to Baltimore that evening.  Trying to squeeze everything I wanted to see into one day was a challenge I did not meet. What better excuse for a return trip though - on a weekend that Liza is home! This is what I did see:

U.S. Capitol

National Archives

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

World War II Memorial

World War II Memorial

World War II Memorial

Korean War Veterans Memorial

Lincoln Memorial