Because we missed touring the National Mall on Sunday evening, we were all anxious to see some of the monuments. We changed our original plans to visit the Museum of Natural History and made our way to the Mall. We first visited the Lincoln Memorial. We then went to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and then to the World War II Memorial. We wanted to see the Korean War Memorial as well but by that time it was getting pretty hot and we were hungry.
We made our way to Penn Quarter via the metro and had lunch at Potbelly. We arrived at Ford’s Theatre at 1:00. We really enjoyed the museum. We were able to see the gun that John Wilkes Booth used to shoot Abraham Lincoln as well as the suit that Lincoln was wearing when he died and the pillow he died on. Amazing stuff to see. We were able to take pictures inside the theatre and go up to the balcony level to take pictures right beside the presidential box.
We then made our way to the Petersen House, across the street. We only had a 5 minute wait to enter the house. Although you only see three rooms of the house, it is still incredible to stand in the room where Lincoln died. We thought the Center for Education and Leadership connected to the Petersen House was great. It has wonderful exhibits about the aftermath of Lincoln’s assassination and the capture of John Wilkes Booth. We spent quite a while in there.
We left the Petersen House and headed to our 3:00 timed entry at National Archives. Incredible to be able to view the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights. Most of the documents are difficult to make out, but we were still impressed with the fact that we were able to see them. We spent some time afterward looking at the other displays at the National Archives.
We then caught the metro back to Crystal City. We had sandwiches in our room that night and did some more swimming in the hotel pool. Another great DC day!
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