We were hoping that sense it was so cold, the wait for the Washington Memorial wouldn't be too bad. No such luck. At 12:30 they were already out of all the tickets for the day. So we just posed for pictures.
We saw this very inaccessable memorial. I think it was the John Paul Jones one. Just a statue of this man who was a War Hero back in the Revolutionary war..... I think.
Then it was on to the World War 2 Memorial. We didn't linger, since we spent a lot of time there last time. And it was cold. Did I say it was cold?
We stopped by the Korean War Memorial. I don't think I had seen this one before. It was pretty cool. I liked it a lot. Love my face in this shot. I was concentrating too hard on getting the camera at the right angle. I really wanted the soldiers in the memorial in the shot.
Joshua was starving and we needed something warm. We spent an exhorbant amount on hot cocoa and hot dogs and it was delicious! It was cool too, because the birds would perch 6 inches from you, waiting for you to drop crumbs.
This was the thing Joshua most wanted to see. Thank goodness it has an indoor part that's heated. That's where the bathrooms were as well. So we spent a bit of time warming up and checking out the stuff inside, before going up to see Lincoln.
We saw this fine, fat fellow looking for lunch in the trash. I handed him a sour patch kid, which he took from my fingers and here he is, snacking on it.
I did not know there was a memorial dedicated to the signers of the Declaration of Independance, but here it is. Pretty neat, they have the signature of each person engraved in stone. We posed in front of Thomas Jefferson's. 
We had seen on the map that there was a Jefferson Stone. Well, this is it. No clue why it is important, but by golly, we found it because Joshua wanted to see it.
And this concludes our trip to Washington DC. Which, if I may mention, took us 5 hours from steping on the Metro, to finding the car, which I lost briefly. And did I tell you how COLD it was?!! Freezing cold!
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You are such a good mom spending a day with your son. Good for you! I took the Metro to DC once on my mission and only once. It took 2 hours to get there, 2 hours to get back, and left us very little time to see much before P-day was over. When I was training, my new companions all wanted to go there and I was a stick in the mud companion and refused to ever go again. I would probably enjoy it more now with no time limit on my day. . . but not if it's freezing cold.
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