Big Doors

Yesterday we went to the National Archives to look at stuff like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We mistakenly walked up to the front door but that was not the way to get in. The doors were certainly worth seeing though and here they are.

The documents we went in to look at were there and so faded that they were hard to read which is why they don't allow flash photography and the lighting is so dim. Still it was very interesting to see them and the guards were very knowledgeable and showed us misspellings and other little known things about them.

We also went to the National Portrait Gallery which had some very interesting paintings and sculptures but there were just so many that we didn't make it through the whole place. I wanted to see some old paintings made by a guy back in the 1800's of many of the old Indian's and we found them there and that was one of the things we had wanted to see along the way.

Walking down the street I had to do a touristy thing and stand in the middle of the street looking toward the capitol and take a picture. I felt a little weird about standing in the middle of the street in front of traffic (they were stopped for a red light) but Karen and I got a good laugh out of it anyway.

Another interesting day seeing sights in DC.