Here's the promised video of the dolphins chasing our boat on the way back from our honeymoon:
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Jaclyn & Abhi's DC adventures part one
There was no time to delay, this was -after all- Washington DC. The El Capitan of cities. The city of the Pentagon, the White House, the Capital, the Lincoln Memorial, the Iwo Jima memorial, the city of Rooselvelt Island! okay, so nobody really cares about the last, but you get my point.
DC has more world famous [modern] buildings and monuments, than any other city in the world. But more importantly -infinitely more importantly- this is to be our base camp for the next four or five years.
With these being the facts, Jac & I arrived in DC only a few hours after she graduated from DePauw with her B.A. Unfortunately, we didn't get a chance to explore the city until a few weeks later as I had been busy with work.
We live in Virginia only a block from the Iwo Jima memorial, so we decided to skip that one and head straight to the hill. Capitol Hill.
Benfica's team was apparently visiting DC on the same day... we saw the team bus...
Anyway, we walked to the Capitol and then decided to head to the Smithsonian Museum [yes, I admit it, I'm a museum-geek].
We went to the air and space museum where we saw some really cool exhibits like spacecrafts, early aeroplanes, rockets, and I even touched a moon rock! But the highlight of the trip was definitely the combat flight simulator... you could do flips and stuff during dog fights, and feel the G's pushing against you, and let's just say flying a fighter plane upside down for an extended period of time is harder than it looks.
With rubbery legs, we headed out of the space museum and to the natural history museum. On the way, we met a squirrel friend:
Little did we know, inside the museum awaited our friend's ancestor:
We also met Khushi's earliest ancestor... though we weren't allowed to pet him.
There really were just too many things to photograph... The Smithsonian museums are so gigantic that you can spend an entire week of doing nothing but going through them and you'd still not see everything.
However, I could not not photograph this as we left for the white house:
This is the only original Easter Island statue in the US.
Next, we headed over to the White House. DC is a very small city compared to Delhi, and all the "important" buildings are within a 2 mile radius, so you can generally walk anywhere. The White House was a little disappointing due to the lack of "activity". There were just some tourists taking photographs, so it was a little boring. It's actually a fairly large building, but the trees on the left and right obscure three-fourths of it.
Anyway, after a hard day of loafing around, we headed home on the DC Metro... there's five or six line here, two of which go through Rosslyn [where we live], so we can get a train every two or three minutes to and from DC.
DC has more world famous [modern] buildings and monuments, than any other city in the world. But more importantly -infinitely more importantly- this is to be our base camp for the next four or five years.
With these being the facts, Jac & I arrived in DC only a few hours after she graduated from DePauw with her B.A. Unfortunately, we didn't get a chance to explore the city until a few weeks later as I had been busy with work.
We live in Virginia only a block from the Iwo Jima memorial, so we decided to skip that one and head straight to the hill. Capitol Hill.
Benfica's team was apparently visiting DC on the same day... we saw the team bus...
Anyway, we walked to the Capitol and then decided to head to the Smithsonian Museum [yes, I admit it, I'm a museum-geek].
We went to the air and space museum where we saw some really cool exhibits like spacecrafts, early aeroplanes, rockets, and I even touched a moon rock! But the highlight of the trip was definitely the combat flight simulator... you could do flips and stuff during dog fights, and feel the G's pushing against you, and let's just say flying a fighter plane upside down for an extended period of time is harder than it looks.
With rubbery legs, we headed out of the space museum and to the natural history museum. On the way, we met a squirrel friend:
Little did we know, inside the museum awaited our friend's ancestor: We also met Khushi's earliest ancestor... though we weren't allowed to pet him.There really were just too many things to photograph... The Smithsonian museums are so gigantic that you can spend an entire week of doing nothing but going through them and you'd still not see everything.However, I could not not photograph this as we left for the white house:
This is the only original Easter Island statue in the US.
Next, we headed over to the White House. DC is a very small city compared to Delhi, and all the "important" buildings are within a 2 mile radius, so you can generally walk anywhere. The White House was a little disappointing due to the lack of "activity". There were just some tourists taking photographs, so it was a little boring. It's actually a fairly large building, but the trees on the left and right obscure three-fourths of it.Anyway, after a hard day of loafing around, we headed home on the DC Metro... there's five or six line here, two of which go through Rosslyn [where we live], so we can get a train every two or three minutes to and from DC.
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