We also wanted the kids to experience another style of eating and what better than the Brazilian restaurant? They have a excellent salad bar but the wise patron knows not to fill up on the salad. We had three kinds of steak, chicken, sausages and it was all terrific. We then ubered over to the Washington Monument. It was the tallest building in the world for almost 50 years until the Eiffel Tower eclipsed it. It is still the tallest obelisk and the tallest free standing stone structure. Standing at the base and realizing that the only thing holding it together was gravity and friction.
Some sort of super antenna
Another painted building
Time to climb
Go Evan go!
Down into the metro again
We got to wondering if these metro stations also work as bomb shelters
Nice decorated building
Flowers!
The Waldorf Astoria is closed...for now
Fancy lighting outside
Ben Franklin is stoned
Are these folks training on these fance cameras?
Ben again
More flowers
Fogo for lunch
We are early and have to wait a bit
Salad salad salad
and more salad
Leslie is getting her finger awfully close to the knife
Nice and rare
Not too close with this finger
They brought out only one dessert for the two of them
This photo spurred us on to the monument
There it is, the largest freestanding stone structure in the world
Ringed by flags
It is also the tallest obelisk
No no no no no no no no and no pictures at the entrance
Fine tile work in front of the elevator doors
A cardboard cutout
big numbers on the elevator
Peeking out the windows
The capital
500 feet and facing east
The white house minus the west wing
Lincoln memorial
The Pentagon
Tomas Jefferson
Repaired portion of the monument after the 2011 earthquake
The lightning rods
A ceremonial topper
How the interior is laid out
Escorted to the elevator and instructed on the descent
490 feet and going down
The elevator slows down twice too allow us to see the memorial stones on the inside
Lots of detail on this one
The lady wearing these socks talked non stop so the socks were very appropriate
