Day: June 9, 2018

We again started our day with a wonderful breakfast at the hotel.  Well that is not exactly true.  We received a message that Julian was awake and his parents wanted to sleep.  So……………….   see below.

After playing with Julian we headed down for breakfast.  By now, we are superstars in the dining hall.  The employees here are fantastic.  They are incredibly attentive which is a big help when you are traveling with 3 young children.

We had a great day today visiting the Bureau of Printing and Engraving.  No pictures allowed (Are they worried that we will start printing our own money after we take a selfie?).   Next we headed to the Newseum.  This is a museum dedicated to the news.  They have the front pages of newspapers representing every state in the country and more countries than I could possibly name.  These are changed daily.  It was very interesting seeing the coverage from the various cities around the world.  Here in D.C. the Washington Post had the Capital’s Stanley Cup victory on the front page.  I know it is hard to beleive but no other paper thought that was worthy of first page coverage, not even the Qatar Tribune (is that really a newspaper?).   Owen seemed less than enthused (see below)

But then we went to a area of the Newseum that was much more kid friendly.  Here they had an activity where kids could video themselves as newscasters.  It was fantastic and Owen and Charlie loved it.

After the Newseum we headed over to the National Archives to view the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence  and the Magna Carta.  We had limited time there so it gave us a reason to return some day.

Then it was back to the hotel.  Like I said this place is very classy.  The staff members go out of their way to say hello to us and are always asking if they can help in anyway possible.  In addition the concierge was very helpful in getting us the almost impossible to obtain tickets to the newly opened African American museum.

The place is old, for example we saw this on our first night.

I really didn’t care much about the security bar since I rarely, if ever, use it.  But this is what I noted upon return to our room later in the day.

This place is so classy they even gift wrap the toilet paper.

And in case you get thirsty when you are sitting on the toilet, no problem at this hotel because………………………..

I failed to mention that after touring we had dinner with some wonderful friends of Robyn, who live in D.C.   I won’t tell you about that since I have already embarrassed myself enough for one night.

See you tomorrow.