{"id":1122,"date":"2012-09-09T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2012-09-09T22:30:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T03:30:25","slug":"washington-d-c-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"Washington D.C. – Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

On day 4, we did a bunch of important stuff.\u00a0 First we had breakfast.\u00a0 Crab cakes again, on top of an English muffin, topped with a poached egg and hollandaise sauce, accompanied by a bloody Mary. \u00a0Ben’s other sister Devi (like Davey), her husband Andy, and Andy’s mom brought the stuff for the bloody Marys.\u00a0 The glasses were rimmed with Old Bay, which seems to be the official seasoning of Maryland.\u00a0 It’s red, so it looks nice.\u00a0 It’s also what we used to season the crabs.<\/p>\n

With breakfast over with, the four of us went downtown to see some stuff and hopefully score free tickets to a Shakespeare play.\u00a0 Turns out you can only get tickets for the next showing so we changed our schedule around a bit and saw the play before our other sightseeing.\u00a0 All’s Well That Ends Well <\/em>has quite a few funny moments, but the central plot is weird and I can see why it’s one of Shakespeare’s less popular plays.\u00a0 Part of the weirdness is probably a result of the time period during which it was written.\u00a0 Mostly, the “hero” of the play seems to have no redeeming qualities and the heroine also makes some questionable decisions.\u00a0 But it ends well I guess?\u00a0 So… yeah.<\/p>\n

After that we had to see some stuff.\u00a0 That shadow in the upper right is my finger.<\/p>\n

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Will is very excited about the Washington Monument.<\/p>\n

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This is the WWII memorial.\u00a0 The water is kept extremely clean.\u00a0 The Lincoln Memorial is very small in the background.\u00a0 The columns on the right extend nearly to where I’m standing.\u00a0 There are a bunch on the left too out of frame.\u00a0 The have the states written on them.<\/p>\n

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The reflection pool is doing its thing.<\/p>\n

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And the boys are doing their thing.<\/p>\n

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Us girls are normal; just chilling out and taking pictures.\u00a0 Will’s trying to look innocent.<\/p>\n

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And there’s President Lincoln doing his thing.<\/p>\n

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This is probably the thing I most wanted to see although I’m not sure why.\u00a0 The engraving up top reads, “IN THIS TEMPLE AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNION THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS ENSHRINED FOREVER.”\u00a0 Lincoln seems to have attained some kind of mythical status what with being very tall, being a war-time president, haunting the White House, and hunting vampires.\u00a0 Also, this:<\/p>\n