More Washington DC

More Washington DC pictures. These are pictures of our Open Top Tour bus. As you can see from the pictures I took on our tour, many of them are from the top of the bus. This was a great way to see everything, take some good pictures, and get a suntan all at the same time.

One of the most interesting historical places to visit in DC is Ford's Theater, where Abraham Lincoln was shot while watching a play. This theater still shows plays several nights a week, in fact, when I was here TDY for 2 months in 2003 just before we retired from the Air Force Reserve, I went to a play here at Ford's Theater.

The first pictures are of Ford's Theater, and the other pictures are of the Peterson House, the hotel right across the street, where President Lincoln was taken after he was shot, and where he died 9 hours later.

Next is the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, where our paper money is printed. We were able to take the tour of this place and watch as they were making money. We saw many large pallets of paper money all in high stacks. Very interesting to see where and how our money is made. The second picture is the National Headquarters for The American Red Cross.

We visited the Korean War Memorial, and this was beautiful, these are some pictures we took.

These are some of the other buildings in Washington DC, and some of the statues also, there were so many and all looked so impressive and important. We had no idea what most of them were, but they were nice. I think it would take years to learn all there is to know about this fascinating place.

As you can tell, we both were very happy to spend time in Washington DC, we both loved it there, spent 5 very full days, and could have spent even more time there. Now we are heading for Pennsylvania to visit a friend of Joe's and check out the area.