Another Day, Another Museum

Actually, we started our day at the Library of Congress, which is just beautiful. You can go in to see the reading room, but no photos. They also had a lot of manuscripts and documents, such as draft of the Constitution and letters written about the changes to the Declaration of Independence. They also had all of Thomas Jefferson's books, an unbelievable collection.

Next, it was off to Congresswoman Jackie Speier's office. She was not there, but a very nice (young!) intern took us to Congress for our tour. Because Chuck arranged the tour through Ms. Speier's office we got to go from the House offices to the Capitol in the tunnel that runs under the street! When there is a vote in the House bells go off in the office building and the representatives all dash through this tunnel to get to the vote.

Then we went to the Smithsonian Museum of American History. We were only able to get through one level, but we did see Julia Child's kitchen! It's so tiny! They removed the table and put in an island for filming. I am looking forward to seeing the rest of the museum, it's on Wednesday's agenda. I am particularly looking forward to seeing the puffy shirt from Seinfeld!

Back to Foggy Bottom, where we had dinner at Founding Farmers where all the food is locally grown. This is one of the best restaurants I have ever been to, it was amazing, especially because I got fried green tomatoes! And Chuck thinks bacon lollies (bacon with a brown sugar glaze served on a stick like lollipops) is the world's perfect food. Wednesday we go back to the Capitol, we have passes to get into both Houses of Congress to watch debate on the floor. I am so looking forward to it, it will be like CSPAN unplugged!