We spent our last day in Washington, D.C. This jam-packed day included site-seeing, visiting one of the Smithsonian museums, and meeting our Senator Susan Collins. Most of the monuments are found along the "mall" in D.C. The "mall" is not a shopping mall, but rather a large green park-like space in the center of the city. Along the edges of it are numerous museums which people can visit for free. We visited the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. A large elephant greets people as they enter and then visitors can choose to visit collections arranged around this center spoke. We visited the insect area, the reptile and bone exhibit, and the dinosaurs.
Before the museum, we saw the Washington monument, Lincoln Memorial, the World War II Memorial, the reflecting pool, the Vietnam Wall, and the White House. We walked the whole length of the mall to get to Capitol Hill to make our 2 pm appointment with Senator Susan Collins. At the Senator's office one of her interns, Nate, gave us a personal tour of the Capitol building. We saw lots of beautiful paintings, statues, and halls and learned a lot of neat things about the Capitol building. Did you know that one of the only parts that survived a fire was the rock walls made of granite from Maine? Who was Hannibal Hamlin? And what is his connection to Maine?
After our tour, we had our picture taken on the steps of Capitol building with Susan Collins. She commended the team on their accomplishments and told us about her first trip to Washington D. C. She also said that one never knows where they'll end up! She encouraged us to get a good education and who knows maybe one day we'll be serving on the Senate floor!
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