hodeleri's Journal: WA DC Trip

Went to Washington DC, saw the following:

• Fort McHentry
• Annapolis
• Holocaust Memorial Museum (best damn museum I've ever been to)
• Various monuments (Roosevelt was my favorite)
• Senate building (the security people there are fools)
• Air & Space Museum (only a few exhibits)
• Mount Vernon
• Arlington National Cemetary
• American History Museum (only one exhibit)

  • You aren't allowed to take pictures of the Senate or House of Representatives or the surrounding hallways. This is a load of crap, anybody could take a standard camcorder and remove or obscure the recording LED and walk around the place recording everything. Same with a digital camera with the flash turned off, the advantage being that it is silent. If a spy really wanted to it would be trivial for them to create a detailed map of the area.

    My sister's got to perform the wreath-laying at George Washington's crypt. Really cool place he had there, I really liked the idea of the sunken walls.

    The Holocaust Memorial Musuem is a very very good museum. I recommend it to anyone. The best part of it is all the artifacts they have. The atrium is of the building gave me a feeling of being completely and totally wrong. I don't know how to describe it exactly, but oppressive and confinging barely scratch the surface.