The girls decided they needed a rest day and as Isabel so eloquently put it, "let the boys do boy things". So Liam and myself headed of to the National Air and Space Museum on The Mall. What started out as a small adventure turned into a whole day affair as we also traveled out to Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Centre (essentially a large, modern hangar that holds many more exhibits).
We saw many of the aircraft that have played some important role in history; the original Wright Brothers 1903 Flyer, the Spirit of St Louis, Bell X -1, Apollo 11 command module Columbia, the Enola Gay, the Space Shuttle Enterprise, and a Concorde. The most amazing thing is that technology has progressed from the Wright Borthers in 1903 to modern day, little over a hundred years.
An afternoon run took in the Vietnam Memorial, the World War II Memorial and also the Lincoln Memorial. I returned after sunset to get some night photos of these stunning sights.
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