Buddy's Myth

In October the Suz and I went to Washington D.C. She had a seminar in Bethesda and she invited me to tag along. The premise was that she would need some help with luggage and stuff, as she had just come off of a surgery. As it turned out, she was feeling pretty good, and I didn't really give her much real help.
We had a blast. Every chance I got I was on the subway down to the mall (that's the National Mall, where all of the Smithsonian buildings and the cool monuments are). It was a quick train ride and it dumped you right in the middle of everything. I walked more in that three days than I had in the prior year. There was a great moon each night that made for some awesome photo ops of the Lincoln, Washington, Viet Nam, and WWII memorials.
One night the Suz and I were walking to the White House and were stopped by a guard on the sidewalk leading in front of the building. He said we had to wait because Air Force One was about to fly in and land at the White House. I think the guard was a democrat, as he gave us far more tactical information than he probably should have concerning the President's scheduled whereabouts over the course of the night. He practically pointed out a grassy knoll that the Pres would be jogging by later. I don't like the guy but it was cool to have the President fly over your head and land a few hundred feet away.
I spent a lot of time in the National Gallery of Art. I was able to revisit some of my favorite paintings that I hadn't seen in about ten years. I also managed to squeeze in trips to the new Museum of the American Indian, The Hirschhorn, the Museum of American History, Museum of Natural History, Air and Space Museum, and the National Archives.
All in all it was a grand trip, and I only took about three hundred photos in three days. Here are a few.