A friend of mine and I went yesterday, and it was amazing. We saw all of the major monuments in the mall in one day!
We missed the last tour of the Capitol building, but a security guard told us we could get to sit in on a session of Senate if we got a ticket from one of our state senators, so we booked it over to the Senate office building as fast as we could, and we didn’t make it back in time because the Senate was out of session when we got back (I guess they finish at 2).
Anyway, we got to sit in the House of Representatives room (where the president gives the State of the Union address) and the Supreme Court courtroom, and we visited the Library of Congress, the House of Reps Office Building, the Washington Monument, the Reflecting Pool, the WW2 Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam Wall, the White House, and some Smithsonian Museums.
I’d reccommend visiting to anyone, because it’s really one of the only places that you can go in the world where you can see so much in such a short period of time, because everything is so close!
over 5 years ago