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[If you want to just view the entire Flickr photoset for this trip, here’s the link!<\/a>]<\/p>\n


\ndoesn’t really inspire the respect it used to.<\/em><\/p>\n


\nat the corcoran<\/em><\/p>\n


\nzero-mile marker. i like the dude posing, the security truck, and the garden party at the white house.<\/em><\/p>\n


\nthe j edgar hoover fbi building<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\nthe capitol lawn says ‘penis’.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\ncapitol steps<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\nlibrary of congress reading room<\/em><\/p>\n

You’re not supposed to take pictures in the reading room. You can only get to it if you’re on an official tour, and then you’re supposed to be very quiet and respectful and take NO PHOTOS. Well, we attached ourselves to a tour group and ducked into the viewing room. It was a group of fifteen-or-so Russians who couldn’t have cared less about the rules. The very loud tour guide described the scenery, and the gist of her talk was ‘Americans are all so wealthy, they can afford to have buildings like this everywhere’.\n<\/p>\n

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\nsupreme court building<\/em><\/p>\n

The security guard in front of the Supreme Court got extremely nervous when I laid down on the steps to take photos.\n<\/p>\n

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\nthe northern end of the tidal basin<\/em><\/p>\n

The cherry blossom festival was at its peak that weekend. We couldn’t have been there at a better time. It was warm, sunny, and crowded. So unbelievable. If you ever have the opportunity to be in D.C. at that time of year, you must go. You won’t regret it.\n<\/p>\n

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My photos can’t really do it justice.<\/p>\n

One of the places we saw that day was the National Gallery of Art, which I’d always skipped before. The regular collection wasn’t terribly thrilling, except for the impressionists. Also, they had an exhibition of C\u00e9zanne’s work in Provence that was very cool to see.<\/p>\n

I should also mention the food that day, since it was beyond awesome: one of my favorite DC restaurants is Andal\u00e9<\/a>, totally incredible Mexican food. Before dinner, we wandered and shopped in Georgetown (mmm, Diesel), and then had dinner at Papa Razzi, to which I had been before. The food was great and the drinks were better. I rode back to the hotel on the metro with my head on my knees, giggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[If you want to just view the entire Flickr photoset for this trip, here’s the link!] doesn’t really inspire the respect it used to. at the corcoran zero-mile marker. i like the dude posing, the security truck, and the garden party at the white house. the j edgar hoover fbi building the capitol lawn says […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15],"tags":[55,214,87,85],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"geo":{"latitude":38.89511110000000115860530058853328227996826171875,"longitude":-77.0363693000000040456143324263393878936767578125,"description":"Washington, DC, USA"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/storage\/2006\/04\/315479005_4960ffc47b_o.jpg?fit=800%2C600","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Z5R-1p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":89,"url":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/cherry-blossom-festival\/monday-04032006-day-three\/","url_meta":{"origin":87,"position":0},"title":"Washington DC for the Cherry Blossom Festival","author":"Jenni","date":"04.25.2006","format":false,"excerpt":"fdr memorial I had never seen the FDR memorial, either. 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