Visiting the US Capitol.
Unfortunately I had to rewrite this because Blogger took this entry to be spam. Because I linked to things to do in the Capitol. Like the Capitol it's self and the Botanical Gardens.
I used to work for Pan Am and for lunch my other half and I would go on short plane rides. Where it would take an hour and a half to get there. We would spend a few hours doing some thing, have lunch and then come home.
I got to see the pandas when they visited the Washington D.C. Zoo.
Oh, be prepared to walk up the hill that didn't seem so steep going down! And a few museums. All well worth doing if you are there.
You go from the air port to their subway system. All very easy. And that was in the late 1980's. And we were not used to how easy their train system was. Using the cards that became common place years later in New York.
I have a friend who became an American citizen, being born in Columbia. She is one of those people who are proud to be an American by choice! And when ever her friends or family come to the USA, she packs every one in the car and drives to spend a full day in Washington. Showing all the sites to be seen. Just one we missed because of the infamous "Circle"! That is easy to miss the exit.
We were one of those unfortunate victims of "The Circle" trying to get to see the soldiers holding up the flag statue. (Hollywood did a movie on the man on the end, who just happened to be there, and didn't do well with the fame.) And we drove into a parking lot that had a post with an armed guard in it. I got out and noticed he put his hand on his gun! Well, I didn't think anything of it because I was innocent. Simply lost looking for directions back to D.C. as the road we were on was going to take us to Virginia!
When I got back in the car, my friends were screaming that he had his gun literally out of it's holster! Gosh. This was before the 9/11 tragedy of 2001.
Oh, we were at the Pentagon.
posted by LadyIrene @ 5/04/2006 05:01:00 PM
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