WASHINGTON, DC
Last updated April 1999
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The Brick Skeller:
A Beer Lovers Paradise: Over 500 different beers is that enough? Well maybe you also want some cheap food. What about a great relaxing atmosphere? If you are starting to get excited then it's times to go to the Brick Skeller restaurant in Dupont Circle. This restaurant offers the true beer connoisseur a laid back and relaxed atmosphere and a place to enjoy an interesting new taste.
We took the metro into DC. Our hotel was in the suburbs, close to the IBM facility where Ron was working. The metro was convenient, inexpensive, and quick.
The Washington Monument was covered in scaffolding, so that wasn't very attractive.
We only toured one Smithsonian, the Museum of American History. On the first floor, we were taken back in time and saw how rural America has changed over the last century and a half. There were amazing hand tools, horse-drawn 'things', conestoga wagons, carriages, and weird bicycles. On the second floor, we saw the First ladies of the USA. My favorite was the Gown Gallery.
I enjoyed our visited to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial (photo below). I love the sound of running water and this memorial has miniature waterfalls.
Kathy

Arlington Cemetery was very impressive. The rows and rows of graves stretching over the hills amazed me. It was more beautiful than I could ever have imagined. I felt a little bewildered though. Our servicemen lay dead here and I was thinking about how lovely it was. We saw the end of the Changing of the Guards and the precision the guards showed at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is magnificent.

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Washington, DC
is an attractive place, lovelier than I had anticipated for such a large city. I wish we had visited a week or two later so that we could have seen the Cherry Trees in bloom. Anyway, we want to go back some day and take as long as we want to visit all of the Smithsonian's 16 national museums.

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