Washington D.C.

This past week, Mom and I went to Washington D.C. for the National Day of Prayer.  We had a great time! 

 Thomas Jefferson at the Libary of Congress

The Supreme Court

Our National Day of Prayer group got a private late-night tour of the Capitol with a Texas congressman.  He knows a lot about history and the Capitol, so he talked for a long time.  We had to leave the Capitol at 1:00 A.M. because the bus had to take us back to the hotel. 

The Capitol looks very cool at night.

Have you seen this painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence?  It hangs in the Rotunda of the Capitol.  You can't tell from far away, but Jefferson stepping on Adam's foot.  That didn't really happen, but the artist just did that because the two men were enemies and political rivals. 

Here's a close up so you can see

We got to see Marine 1 take off from the White House after the President came back from his Afghanistan.

This weird bush was outside the Washington Monument - we had never seen these before!

This is the gun that John Wilkes Booth used to kill Lincoln.