DC Trip day 1

I got to go with Darryl on the spouse trip this year. I didn't go last year because I was nursing Cole and didn't think it would be much fun packing him all over wherever we were. This year the show we got to go to was the Fancy Food show in Washington DC(it's usually in New York but they're doing some work on the building and so they moved it to DC for a couple years). I was excited to really get to see DC. When I went to DC on the church history trip we only had a short time and the group I was with wanted to have lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe and so we waited in line the whole time we could have been sight seeing, and in the end a few of us left that group so we could maybe see something and all we got to do was walk into the Air & Space Museum for about 30 min. :/ Well we made up for it on this trip. Darryl has toured DC a couple times and so he was a great tour guide. Our plane landed, we dropped our stuff off at the hotel, and then we walked and walked and walked. We saw all the monuments and memorials, walked past many points of interest like the Fords Theatre, and tried to see the front of the White House but there was something going on so they wouldn't let you get anywhere you could see anything. We did get to go see the back of it. It looks small from the back. At the Lincoln Memorial a larger lady fell at the top. You can see the stretcher at the bottom of all the stairs--we didn't say around to see how they were going to get her down all those stairs. She didn't seem to really be hurt so we found some humor in the paramedic and their stretcher predicament. It was fun to see the Vietnam Memorial again. I was glad to get a digital picture of my mom's brother's name, Chris D Munson, from the wall. We headed back to the hotel about 11:00 PM and it felt like we'd already seen everything-- boy was I wrong. :)
The bottom pictures are the Korean War Memorial;Washington Monument; The Lincoln Monument; and The Washington Monument and the Jefferson Monument. The new WWII Memorial was pretty neat. I was amazed at how extensive the Roosevelt Memorial was.