DC Wrap-up - The Extra Day

We called this our extra day because originally we were planning on touring the White House, but since it is NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE to get tickets to tour the White House - in our Post 9/11 world - we had an extra day to do what we wanted.

When we were at the Capitol, the tour guide was saying how cool it was to watch the House in session, so we thought we would do that on our extra day.

Our first stop was to the Natural History museum to go to the butterfly enclosure for free. This way Brent could see it too.

This is a moon moth. Isn't that neat looking?

Then we went back to the Capitol, went through the security, turned in anything that had a battery (cell phone, camera), went through more security, then we saw this...

(This is just a picture of a picture, since I had to turn in my camera.) Yep, that's right, the room was COMPLETELY empty. And it was around 11a. Hmmm... Then we heard someone say that they were going to convene at 12:30p. Ok. So, we went to lunch and then came back at 12:30 and there was someone making a speech about health care to a COMPLETELY EMPTY ROOM. There was not another person in a seat. He spoke to himself, and I guess us, for about 10 minutes. After he sat down, this man got up and said that the speaker of the house had given him the authority to declare a recess until 2 pm. Man, I'm so glad that we went through 3 lines of security for this! It was kind of depressing.

Then we went to the Naval Museum.

We were the only ones in the museum, so Brent got to play with things all he wanted.

Outside of the museum was the USS Barry. It's a destroyer, I think. (Sorry Brent...I don't remember.)


All in all, it was a somewhat disappointing day, but we were still on vacation, so it was way better than a normal day.