day 71

today we got up early to head out so we got a bowl of cereal then headed out the door around 8:30ish. we took a bike trail all the way down to the mall which we will take tomorrow to head out of dc. since it was early there wasn't a lot of people out so we decided to hit all the major tourist attractions at the mall like lincoln memorial, washington monument, ww2 memorial, vietnam wall, capitol hill, then we headed to do inside stuff like the library of congress, botanical gardens, native american smithsonian, air and space museum, and the old post office tower. granted we went fast through a lot of it but we have both been to dc before and you can only spend so much time at certain things like the monuments and memorials, its the smithsonians that i wish we had days to explore, o-well, i will be back for 8 hours when i train from connecticut to michigan so there are some things on the list that we didn't get to. so i will share some highlights of the day instead of rambling on for pages about what we saw. my most favorite exhibit i saw today was in the native american museum which was a section by an artist named, brian jungen. he created some cool pieces out of ordinary materials and it just really impressed me so i will share some photos of them and hope to do them justice. my most shocking moment of the day was seeing the hubble space telescope at the air and space, it just blew me away how huge it is and they had an exhibit next to it showing a ton of pictures it has taken and i was literally flabergasted that it was right in front of me. best smell of the day went to the entrance of the botanical garden with is hundreds of exotic flowers, i was just loving it. most disappointed part of the day was the library of congress because we went to the jefferson and madison buildings and they weren't as impressive as i had in my head and i think i might be thinking of a different building in my head from the movies of what the library was supposed to look like. we biked everywhere we went which helped us go faster around town so we were just cruising through the busy streets of dc. we hit up some bookstores and some good hole in the wall restaurants. we were very protective of our bikes so we would normally u-lock our front tire to our frame then use our wire locks to wrap around our helmets, saddles, and to each others' bikes and that would be around a pole or something. most terrorist moment was when evan tried to sneak in a knife into the library of congress and he had to go back out and put it with our bikes, but he accidentally had it in his backpack. it was a good busy day and our legs are tired from it. we are heading to baltimore tomorrow. can't wait to come back and do some more exploring.