Today was all about museums, starting with Newseum...the most magical place on earth! There are seven floors of nothing but news, I was in heaven. They start outside the building with front pages of papers from every state, it runs down the entire front of the building. 
The first things you see are seven sections of the Berlin Wall, still intact. Then the museum becomes a multimedia experience, with artifacts, such as newspaper from over the years, movies, and computers to get more information about the exhibits. There were so many exhibits it took us over six hours to see it all, and then I think we missed things.
This gallery was about the reporting on 9-11. Newspapers from all over the world covered the wall and the antenna from one of the towers was on display. There was also a documentary about the reporting and the journalist who covered the story that day. There was a particularly moving exhibit for a photographer who died that day, one of his fellow journalists was able to get his camera and the photos he took are on exhibit. If you ever make it to Washington I highly recommend Newseum, even if you are not a news junkie it's an amazing place.
We then went to the National Portrait Gallery, no Stephen Colbert's portrait is not there anymore, he is now in the Smithsonian. Then off to the National Sculpture Garden. I wonder how may of the student groups touring the garden knew what this was...Ended the day with a fantastic meal of tapas at Jaleo. Tuesday we tour Congress and hopefully get to meet our representative. We get to go into the gallery of the House, unfortunately our tour is in the morning and the House doesn't start session until 2pm, so it's unlikely we will see anything, but I am still looking forward to it. Haven't seen any congressmen yet so hopefully we will on the tour!
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