Day 4 Monument Morning

I know it has been a while since we went on vacation but I still have a few thing I want to post so we have them on our blog. Day 4 was a very full and busy day. We started with visiting some of the monuments in the area.

Our first stop was the Iwo Jima Memorial. It is so amazing to see in person. It is so huge and so moving to see these men who served our country.

Stop 2 was the White House. The kids really wanted to see the White House and they were very excited when we got there. It is a very beautiful building even through the fence.

Just down the street was the Washington Monument. From there we took a nice long walk on what I like to call "Monument Road" so many things all in a row, on one street so amazing!

We walked to the World War Two Memorial next and that is very special to us because my Grandfather served in that war and was in Japan when they bombed it "pretty scary". There is water and fountains everywhere it is amazing.

We then walked to the Vietnam Wall Memorial. All those names is quite a site to see.

My Dads generation lived through this so it was really touching for him to be able to see it in person.

This is what Zach couldn't wait to see the Lincoln Memorial. We could see in in the distance but as we got closer it was amazing to see how big it really is.

We climbed up the huge step to see it close up. Abraham Lincoln is so big we all looked so small standing next to him.

The one thing that was disappointing is that the reflection pond was empty and under construction so no water means no reflection. The one thing that both John and I thought of when we walked by it was to just say "Forest" pretty funny that we both thought of the same thing.

The last monument at the end of our walk is the Korean War Memorial. They had a wall with pictures taken from news papers during the war of all different people who served our country, pretty cool!

There were also these ghostly statues of men walking through some grass just like they had to do in the war, walk around in silence always looking over there shoulder.
It was a wonderful morning see these many special memorials that mean so much to our country. We took a much needed lunch break and let John and Zach walk back to get the car for us.