Today we woke up a bit behind schedule and rushed to the airport.\u00a0 We caught the Amtrack into Washington DC, which was a short trip, pretty cheap ($18) and surprisingly comfortable.\u00a0 That took us to Union Station, where we purchased a rail pass, and would use the subway for transportation the rest of the day.<\/p>\n
Our first stop was the National Zoo (link<\/a>).\u00a0 We were in a hurry to see quite a bit, and we could go to zoos in FL, so we didn’t spend much time time there, just went as quickly as possible to the animals that we wanted to see.\u00a0 One thing was for sure, the zoo is a lot easier to walk through in Florida, where there aren’t hills all over the place!<\/p>\n The next stop was the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (link<\/a>).\u00a0 We were too late in the day to see the permanent exhibit, as all of the tickets had been given out, so we walked around the temporary exhibits.\u00a0 It was interesting to me seeing how the photography differs depending on the source (Nazi or Anti-Nazi), and what message they were trying to convey.<\/p>\n After that, we went to the Smithstonian Museum of Natural History (link<\/a>).<\/p>\n