Another Day in the Big City!

We knew that it was going to rain....so we came prepared.  Luckily, it was not too terribly cold.

You have to get the classic "in front of the Capitol" photos!

And then it was full steam - walking down the Mall to the various Smithsonian museums.

Enjoyed the newer American Indian museum - none of us had seen this one before.

Lots of bead work!  This is a decoration made of what looked like millions of tiny glass beads!

Walking in the rain!

We stopping in the Air and Space Museum for a short visit - it was much to crowded for our tastes, so we cut it short.

And the group gave in and trudged down to the Natural History Museum so I could peek at the Hope Diamond!  The big center diamond itself is too big to be really sparkley....but the rest of the necklace is made of gorgeous little rectangular diamonds.  Really more impressive than this photo!

More walking in the rain!

It was getting close to 5:30PM (when most of the museums close up for the day) and the sun was finally peeking thru - and we spied this full horizon-to-horizon rainbow....unfortunately, my camera wouldn't take a wide enough photo to show it.....but the lighting on the "Castle" was just spectacular!  And it was brightening as we walked...

Probably the brightest rainbow I'd ever seen - a nice way to end the day!