D.C. Memorial Walk

On one day during our trip to Washington, D.C., we took a long walk around the major monuments around town. We started at the Jefferson Memorial. From there we also had a good view of the Washington Monument across the tidal basin. (Since it's under renovation, we didn't actually make a stop there.)

Next stop was the FDR Memorial, where the girls liked the big doggie and waited in the unemployment line.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial was Celia's favorite, though we didn't really get a picture of her favorite part, which was the passageway between two stone "mountains" that you can only partially see here behind the statue of Dr. King.

We happened upon the Korean War Memorial at just the right time. Just as we got there, a Korean military battalion walked in formation into the memorial and took a moment of silence.

Next up was the Lincoln Memorial, where we took a break for lunch.

Sabrina spent a while tracing names with her finger at the Vietnam War Memorial.

And here's Celia striking a glamorous pose at the World War II Memorial.

On the walk back to the car there were police blocking traffic along one of the streets, and the officer at the crosswalk told us the President was going to drive by. We'll have to take his word for it that the President was actually in one of the couple dozen vehicles that came zooming past a few minutes later.