Saturday, we decided to be brave and drive into the College Park Metro Station rather than take the bus and it turned out to be just fine....much quicker and the parking was abundant and free on weekends.  We jumped on our train like pros and transferred easily and quickly.  We even knew right where to catch the Big Bus at the huge Union Station to continue our 2-day tour. 

First stop, the Pentagon.  They dropped us quite a ways from the Pentagon so we probably walked a mile and a half to get to the Memorial and back to the bus stop.  You have to reserve a least 2 weeks in advance to tour the Pentagon (which we didn't do) but were able to enjoy the beautiful memorial there.  184 lost their lives that day and each person has a beautiful granite bench either pointing to the building (if they died there) or pointing the opposite direction if they died in the hijacked plane.  Very moving and your stomach does flip flops to visualize what happened that day.

We spent the rest of our day at the Smithsonian Museum of American History and of Natural History.  Both spectacular. 

 A piece of Plymouth Rock where the Pilgrims landed in 1620.

 Apples first desk top computer from the 1980's

Our Flag made entirely of Legos

The Hope Diamond

Denny transformed into a Homo heidelbergensis cave man!  Don't really love the unibrow!

Today is Sunday, our last day in D.C.  It's lightly raining and we are pooped.  We may take this day to catch up on laundry, shopping, and rest.  Not sure yet.  We've seen so much and it's all been incredible.  It's been amazing the watch the Pope's visit places we just were!  To me, his visit here shows how people are hungry for peace and a better world no matter what your religious beliefs.