Day 9 - Sightseeing Washington D.C.

On day nine, the final day of my trip, there was no ballgame. Rather, there was a bunch of sightseeing through Washington D.C. We slept in until about 9:30, and had breakfast at the hotel restaurant. We walked over to the White House, but no sign of George Dybya. Within sight of there was the Washington monument. We hung out there while we tried to find shade from the 100 degree heat.

On the way to the Lincoln memorial, we stopped by the WWII memorial and the Vietnam memorial.

Because it was 100 degrees, we cabbed it over to the Smithsonian. While we were there we did more McDonald’ing than sightseeing, although, there was some cool stuff to see. We then went to the National Art Gallery. Dang, those people are crazy about their art. We bought a listening tour device, but we cut them off when they got into minor details that anyone would overlook. We actually saw two Leonardo da Vinci paintings.

At the archives, we saw the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights, but not before being stalled by a security guard.

We then scurried over to the Museum of Natural History, and saw some old bones. Not much else. We caught an earlier flight back to Toronto, with no change fee.