Museums

Our day of sightseeing started at the Washington Monument as we biked over to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

Looking down the National Mall at the Capital is awe inspiring.

  

We pass the graduation ceremony of George Washington University.

Just 5,000 graduates and their families gathered on the National Mall. 

The Air and Space Museum is an incredible collection of restored famous flying machines and space craft.

  

It's very dramatic to look up towards the ceiling and have the first plane that flew around the world suspended above your head.

This is the first plane that flew to the Antarctic and instead of wheels, it had little ski attachments.

And of course you have the Wright brothers making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903.

Along with the great achievements in air travel, airline nostalgia brings all of us back to another era. Here I'm pointing to the stewardess uniform that I wore in 1971, when I flew for Northeast Airlines "the first to wear hot-pants."

Next, we went over to the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art. That's me sitting on the steps.

What can I say. The greatest works of art in the world gathered in one place is awesome. We were inspired...

... and captivated.