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The Washington D.C. History Museum

Below are some photos I took while I was at the History Museum in Washinton DC. They had a large variety of dinosaur bones, gems, and animals.

Right outside of the musuem, you have the option to purchase everyone’s favorite ice cream from the future, Dippin’ Dots. Behind the museum is a tent, where for three dollars, you can kiss women. As you can tell, you’re in for a fun filled day.

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The Washington D.C. Air and Space Museum

Although not an “art” museum, it’s still interesting to go and see these giant rockets, shuttles, and planes that people created to send people up into the air.

All those stories about how brave the astronauts were all true. As you stand in from of these giant monstrosities, you begin to notice how shoddy and poorly put together they look. They’re not smooth and round like TV suggests. They are all blocky, with pieces sticking out, and uneven surfaces that look poorly weilded together. I’d be crying if I had to go into outer space in one of these dang contraptions.

Still, it’s fun to check out this stuff, along with all the airplanes and helicopters they have. The museum has a large collection of space suits they used throughout the years, which is fun to check out too. Not to mention, the gift shop has space ice cream 8-)

I took pictures of the pretty looking ones. You can eye them up below.

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National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

The National Gallery of Art is a giant maze-like building of artwork from different time periods and cultures. Each room has about six or seven pieces, a couch, and a depressed security guard.

I don’t want to name drop, but where else can you get the fresh scoop on Rembrant AND Sabin in the same day? The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., or as I like to call it, the NGOAIWfuggin’DC. That’s where.

You can spend hours looking at everything there, or at least until 5pm, which is when it closes. They even have Picasso’s boyhood gift shop located conviently in the building. Now even you can buy a ton of prints from artists and pieces that are not even located anywhere near the NGOAIWfuggin’DC. That’s right.. all kinds of prints for sale of pieces not even in the museum, which is kind of lame if you ask me. It seems like the gift shop is BFF with Andy Warhol, whose museum is here in good ole Pittsburgh.. not anywhere NEAR the president’s place. Below is some photos I took at the musem. Enjoy!
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Washington D.C.

5in1-reader-wcord.jpgfca5_1.jpgI recently got back from a Trip to Washington D.C. One of the biggest differences between there and here in Pittsburgh is that the bums yell at you in foreign languages. Also, everything is more expensive. A $28 shirt from Urban Outfitters here will cost you $32 there. Not to mention the $27 I spent on two drinks at an upscale Asian French Restaurant called OYA.

Also, for some reason, the back of the White House was completely blocked off, and there were military people at the Washington Monument to “scare” tourists (his own actual words). Eventually we found out that they were there for a ceremony later that day which we missed. There weren’t alot of places to buy a drink, which was bad due to the constant walking and heat.

Everyone there that works for the city was mean, including the lady who was working at the Metro Station. When we asked her for change for a dollar that wouldn’t feed into the ticket machine, she refused and we had to get change from a random woman.

Also, there was no grafitti or anything of that sort anywhere. It was a very clean city and all the buildings were really nice and visually pleasing.

More pictures later.

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Washington Monument
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El Casa De Presidante


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The Capital Building


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