DC Trip With Akka (Day 1)

Lakshmi Akka stayed with us for only two weeks. So I could only take her to one out of town trip. We chose Washington DC (Orlando was a close second). Our friend Gurpreet picked us and dropped us at strategic locations; otherwise, in two days, given how much we had to walk in DC, it would have been impossible to go to the places we went. Just as I forewarned Akka, she only got a flavor of Washington; two days is just not enough. We stayed with Gurpreet. We visited Gerald and had dinner at his house. Pictures from the trip (Day 1):


First stop, the Supreme Court...

...at the U.S. Botanic Garden...

...at the National Museum of the American Indian...

...President George Washington's signature from one of the exhibits from that museum...

...touching a piece of the moon at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum...

...at the Gemini (IV I think) capsule exhibit...

...at the Lunar Landing exhibit...

...Kepler's book from 400 years ago...

...at the Arlington National Cemetery. Close to 300,000 people, mostly military veterans and their families, are buried at this place.

President John F. Kennedy Gravesite. Note the eternal flame near the head.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Gurpreet, Gerald and Shan at Gerald's house. We were late for dinner after a busy day of sight seeing; but we made it. We three were classmates at REC. Gerald and Gurpreet were batch mates in various labs and myself and Gurpreet were final year project mates. We had a lot to converse. Gerald's wife Annie had prepared a nice dinner for us. Their son Adrian, now four, is such a sweet kid. That's it for the first day at DC.