DC with Loriann

We got to tour Washington, DC with Loriann for three days. We picked her up Wednesday evening to go on a moonlight trolley tour of DC. We got to see The Mall and Memorials all lit up. It really was a neat tour. Then Thursday afternoon we drove out to Mount Vernon and spent the day going all over the plantation grounds and got to go on a tour of the house. On Friday, we go up early and drove to the MARC train station in Odenton and rode the train down to Union Station. From there we boarded another trolley and got to drive all over DC. We walked around the Mall and visited the Jefferson Memorial again, the FDR Memorial, the WWII Memorial, the Vietnam Memorial, the Korean Memorial, and the Washington Monument. We then went on the trolley past the National Cathedral, through Georgetown and stopped at the White House just in time to see a motorcade leaving the grounds! (While walking around the Mall area we saw lots of Marine One helicopters flying around so something was going on.) On Saturday, we visited the Pentagon Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. At the Pentagon Memorial we looked up my high school best friend's brothers memorial (it's the foremost "slide bench" in the picture I posted). At the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier we were not only able to see the changing of the guard, but we got to see two wreathes presented, that was REALLY cool!! The pictures are not in order, but hopefully give a good representation of our visit to the DC area.