Washington, D.C.

So we went to Washington yesterday. Our goal was to meet someone from the Czech Republic and we were gloriously unsuccessful. We did see the Czech and Hungarian embassies but we couldn't get into either one. We also found a statue of the first President of then Czechoslovakia. Apparently, he and Woodrow Wilson were buds because next summer they'll be unveiling a statue of ole' Woodrow in Prague to highlight the influence he had on Czech democracy. Anyway, another one of our assignments for the day was to eat an ethnic food we had never tried before for lunch. Again, we were quite unsuccessful. By 2 o'clock, we had discovered that both restaurants we had planned to visit were no longer in business and after walking for hours already, we were starving for lunch. So, we decided that the closest restaurant- which happened to be Chipotle- would have to do. (Hey, it's ethnic, and one of the couples we were with had never eaten there before.) After our adventures at the embassies and Masaryk's statue, we decided to do some sightseeing. We didn't get very much in, but what we saw was really neat. So here's our pictures from mine and Matt's first visit ever to Washington D.C.:



This was super cool. This is Marine One, the helicopter that carries the President. It was flying super fast and super low. I'm not sure if he was on his way to pick up or drop off, but there was another helicopter that flew the same route as this one right behind it. I wasn't quite fast enough to catch the second one.



Here's Matt and me in front of the Lincoln Memorial.



This is at the WWII Memorial. There's a pillar for each state and I just had to get my picture in front of Texas.



This is us in front of the Washington Monument. It was too big to fit in the picture but you've all seen it before...



This is the statue of Tomas Masaryk, the first President of Czechoslovakia (before it became the Czech Republic).



This is the Czech Embassy where we couldn't even get past the gate. (Good thing we spent an hour getting to it.)