Washington, D.C. Thursday, November 13, 2014 - The sculpture garden and the Mall

After sleeping in we started our day at a local hole-in-the-wall breakfast spot called Lincoln's Waffle Shop.

From here we walked to the National Mall and Memorial Parks.   We first visited the outdoor National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden.

Are you old enough to remember typewriter erasers!

From the sculpture garden we walked up the National Mall towards the Washington Monument

We were lucky to get tickets to go UP in the Washington Monument, which we did after we visited the WWII Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial.

WWII Memorial

WWII Memorial

Vietnam War Memorial Wall

Flowers at Vietnam memorial

Could this be a distant relative of my Brother-In-Law - Ery Morry Fortney

After walking about 5 miles we relaxed in our hotel room for a short while.  Tonight we are meeting my niece Kimberly Kappler-Dunaier for dinner.  Kim lives in Arlington and works at Hilton's corporate office in McLean, VA.

We ate at PROOF restaurant, it was excellent.  They also have interesting photo's on the walls of the men's room…check em out!