United States, Virginia - Day 15

DAY 15 

This morning after our breakfast we took the metro to the Smithsonian museums with Alli. We started our tour with the Natural museum. It was really nice! We saw an exposition which talked about the ocean life. We saw the evolution of many different species of fish and the exposition explained why the ocean wasn't healthy.

There was also an exhibition about the human evolution. We saw many skeletons and a man explained us how men appeared on the different continents.

The last exposition that we saw was on the mammals. There were a lot of animals reconstitutions and it was pretty fun!

After that we visited the Museum of american history. There were third floor, the first one exposed the social advances in the United States. The part on the food presented a woman named Julia Child. She's famous because she went to France and brought back our cooking recipes in the United States, how funny! The second floor exposed the history of United States, so I learnt more about the Civil War, and it was really interesting. The third floor was talking about the presidents of the United States. There were also an exposition on the cinema and we saw Harry Potter's costume! 

After Iunch we walked around and we saw the White House! I would have liked to yell "hello Obama, how are you budy ?" but the place was crowded so I figured out that I probably should stay quiet... We also went to the Washington Monument which is huge! The construction started before the civil war but stopped during it. When the war ended, they continued the construction but the rocks weren't the same color, so the monument is bicolor haha! 

We rested a while in the Second World War memorial because it's really nice. In the middle there is a huge fountain where you can wet your foot. Alli's mom joined us and we continued our visit. 

We went to the Lincoln Memorial. To enter in the memorial you have to climb precisely 87 stairs. (yeah we count it..) But it really worths it because the Lincoln statue is really impressive! We passed by the Vietnam Memorial to get in the metro. It is a black wall with the names of the victims written on it. Some people drop flowers or American flags to honor the soldiers.

On the evening we shopped before our dinner. Now I have all the gifts that I need! For dinner we went in an Italian restaurant and it was yummy. They served a really good bread, it felt like home haha! Washington is a really fun city. There is a lot of walking when you are visiting but I really had a great day.