A visit to Washington DC

October 11th -15th  Our trip up the  rest of the Potomac was a relatively short but very pretty trip. The color of the leaves on the trees are only beginning to change. We did however catch what we thought was a testing of a dinghy deployment. Just before the Woodrow Wilson bridge we noticed a large vessel coming at us at full speed, our thought was that it was a Coast Guard vessel. All of a sudden it made a turn and then completely stopped. Next thing we noticed was the back of the boat opening and a dinghy was deploying out of the stern and then started zipping around at full speed and then returned to the stern.  Hmmm, we wondered how we could get our dinghy deployed that quickly?

Stern of the boat lifting

Dinghy  pulls right into the stern

Early afternoon we were settled into the Capital Yacht Club. After checking the weather for the next few days we decided to go for a ' 2 mile walk' around the Tidal basin. On this walk we toured the Jefferson, FDR and now the Martin Luther King memorial. Each memorial was uniquely different.

Jefferson Memorial

FDR Memorial

 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial

Wednesday, we toured the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. It was fascinating to watch how money was printed and we learned 'that money does not grow on trees!' During our trip we noticed a skid with a sign posted 'this skid $64,000,000.00 and there it was all neatly bundled together. Wow that's a lot of money!
That afternoon we also visited the Natural History museum and toured the "Ocean" and then the "Origins of Man" . At this exhibit we came across a group of 'teen Christians' and they wanted to discuss the theory of evolution and creation. It became quite an intense discussion.
Our whole time was not spent touring DC, we spent 3 lovely days with our daughter Debby and grand kids. We had a marvellous time catching up. We were treated to exciting volleyball and soccer games! The three girls are amazing athletes each with special skills. We were quite impressed. Grampy and I  enjoyed being read to and we loved hearing all about their adventures. Sadly we had to say good-bye but only for a day.

Lauren taking a great shot!

Moira

Meghan working her way through the white team!