Road Trip 2011- Day 3- Smith Mtn Lake, VA to Takoma Park, MD and Washington, D.C.

Tucker really needed his Starbucks as we headed off for day three of our adventure. We packed up our stuff and set out for Washington D.C.!

Tucker got to visit Maryland for the first time!

Savannah really liked the amount of greenery that we saw when we got into Maryland. There were actually quite a few cool old buildings and structures and ivy-like plants growing on them.

This was at the Children's Inn at the National Institutes of Health. Katy really liked this quilt and it was hanging in the lobby when we got there.

Here is the sign for the Children's Inn. It was really cool and it had random rooms with playhouses and toys for the children to play in. It also had kitchens to help feed the families there and the staff members were very nice.

Our first stop at the National Mall was the Washington Monument. Kyle said it didn't even look real because it was so big. At 555 feet tall, the Washington Monument actually held the title of world's tallest structure for one year in 1888 until the Eiffel Tower was built in 1889.

Here we are at the WWII memorial with the Washington Monument in the background. The WWII memorial looks great, but it looks even better at night.

Here are Kyle and Savannah at the Korean War Veterans Memorial. The Memorial depicts a troop of soldiers, a fountain pool, and a sculpted mirror-like wall, shown in the background here.

Tucker and Po visited the Lincoln Memorial at dusk and got their picture in front of the 44 foot tall columns that line the front of the building.

Here is the statue of Abraham Lincoln itself, which was actually completed in 1920, forty years before the building it is housed in was completed.

Here are Katy and I with the 16th President of the United States himself.

This is the view back across the reflecting pool (minus the water at the moment) from the Lincoln Memorial back towards the Washington Monument.

This is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial that depicts the names of all those killed in the war or MIA.

Our last stop was back at the Washington Monument to take a long lens photo of the White House. Later on we went and took the pictures from closer.