Alright, as many of you already know I spend April 10th thru April 12th in Washington, DC. So I'm going to post some of my better pictures from the trip, though by all means not all.
We started out at the US Capitol. We tried like 3 ways of getting in. Here are some pictures from the outside.
The front:
From an office kind of towards the back of the building... this is from the office where all the Representatives work. This is where we began our tour. All bags, liquids, etc. had to be left here.
We ended up going around the building... I got my teacher, Mr. Campbell, to take a picture of me in front of the building
We finally got through security after nearly 2 hours. Then we were on the front steps of the Capitol and ready to head up into the dome of the Capitol.
Inside the Capitol's dome, you can look up and see this... they are 13 ladies, one representing each of the colonies. One of the ladies, depending on how you look at her, is actually George Washington (scary thought eh?), and then some scenes around it.
There are several paintings in this room that I do have some pictures of. They include the landing of the Mayflower, the Baptising of Pocohontas, the surrender of Lord Cornwalis, the signing of hte Declaration of Independence, and even George Washington's resignation is here. I have a picture of some, but for the write up's sake I'm not posting them. If you absolutly positivly must see them, just let me know. They aren't that good though, just so you know.
This is the old House of Representatives Chamber. There are many statues here now. This is where the infamous whisper chamber is. In this picture, if you look at the roof you cna see it is dome shaped. Sound waves travel up, through the roof, and down to the other side so that if someone on the other side of the room is even whispering, you can hear them almost as if they were next to you. The Speaker of the House (btw, the current speaker almost walked over one of my classmates when we were in front of the office building across the street... but I was already through security and never saw her at this point), but anyways, the speaker would stand in the opening of the pillars.. which is where the building originally ended.
We also went through old Supreme Court, and the original Senate. The senate met in the same room until the 1830's, then Supreme Cout met in the room until the new building was finished in 1935.
A suprising thing about this building: you can take all the pictures you want and you can use your flash. There is some sort of special coating on the walls that protects them from the flash. (I knew this from 8th grade, which our tour guide that year was MUCH better... two guides combined there tours this year and Mr. Campbell and myself actually knew more about the building than they did.)
So anyways... it was now time to go to the Supreme Court. However, some of the weaklings in my class were hungry so we walked about a mile from the capitol and found some food. I took this picture as I waited on those certain weakling classmates who would be eating in 3 hours at Hard Rock got s
