Richole Visits D.C. – Day 1

I officially have my first visitor to D.C.
My childhood best friend Richole is in town for a long weekend! I am so excited to show my new home and have an excuse to play tourist.
Friday we spent the whole morning at Mt. Vernon. In the afternoon we took the Metro into D.C.  ate lunch at Union Station and took a tour through the U.S. Capitol. The rest of the afternoon was spent walking the mall, where we stumbled across a Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

It was a bit humid and our legs definitely hurt from so much walking!
Richole also learned that I’m still a rookie when it comes to living here…and that my idea of a “few blocks” is not quite the same as hers.

I am also pretty excited because this is my first time using my new DSLR camera! I recently got a  Canon Rebel EOS T5i, with the help of an early birthday and Christmas present from my parents and grandparents, and I love it!

Anyway enjoy a few photos from our first day!
I will post more on Facebook later.

Mt. Vernon

Mt. Vernon

Mt. Vernon – George and Martha Washington’s tombs

The original statue of “Freedom” which is used to cast the one that lives at the top of the Capitol.

This teacher needed to get her picture at the Department of Education!

Mt. Vernon

U.S. Capitol – this painting goes all the way around the Rotunda showing America’s history from Columbus to the Wright Brothers took 80 years to paint.

Mt. Vernon

Mt. Vernon

Mt. Vernon

Mt. Vernon – WHEAT!

Mt. Vernon

Mt. Vernon – A slave cabin

U.S. Capitol

U.S. Capitol – Rotunda

Mt. Vernon

Mt. Vernon

Mt. Vernon – 16-sided barn invented by Washington for grains

U.S. Capitol

U.S. Capitol

Mt. Vernon – Slave Memorial

Mt. Vernon

Mt. Vernon

U.S. Capitol

On the Mall

Mt. Vernon

Mt. Vernon

Smithsonian Castle

Mt. Vernon

Potomac River

U.S. Capitol

Mt. Vernon

Library of Congress

Mt. Vernon

U.S. Capitol – bust of Lincoln by the same artist that did Mt. Rushmore. This is the “mistake” version and the real one is at the White House.

Mt. Vernon