Day 35 - A girl's best friend

On Day 35, our last day in DC, we went back to the Museum of Natural History to see the Hope and Tiffany Diamonds. I anticipated a quick stop, a few pictures. Little did I realize that geology was a favorite university subject for one of the gals (Su), so we took a lot of pictures of all forms of crystals, rocks, etc., in addition to the Hope (45 carats) and Tiffany (128 carats) diamonds.

The Hope Diamond:






After we covered the development of all minerals from the “big bang” to their eventual final form, we went to see the Castle building, which was the original Smithsonian Building started by the donation of James Smithson.



Su studies the one of the oldest known statues of Buddha from Thailand

We then went to the Hirshorn Art and Statue Garden building


Here, within these hallowed walls we contemplated the true meaning of art and tried to determine what is the truly perfect tush … [edit - if this ever becomes a book, this will have to be the cover. - Lee]




We moved on to the Treasury Building…

And next we saw the White House…


and we came across some other interesting buildings


We had dinner at “the best Thai restaurant in the DC area” and went home to prepare to leave Washington