Trip to the National Gallery

Friday was Veterans day so we actually had a day off together. We drove down to the mall with a friend of ours, Ruth, from James' training class, and went to the Roosevelt memorial and the National Gallery. Ruth has this cool book she lent us called "The Girl with the Watering Can" about a painting by the same name that hangs in the NG. The story goes that the girl in the painting is so tired of standing there with a rock in her shoe that she takes her shoes off and then hops out of the painting. The story takes us to several paintings by famous artists that are also in the NG. We read the book before we left for the museum and the girls were so excited to find the paintings the girl in the story had visited. They had to have their picture taken by the painting.
If you get a chance to see the Roosevelt memorial, it is fantastic. http://www.nps.gov/fdrm/  It is all made of stone- reminisent of the dams built in the "new deal" with statues of Roosevelt, waterfalls and fountains, and famous quotes he said etched in the walls.  I didn't realize it when I took it, but the picture I took of the girls is in stark contrast to the quote about war on the wall. It was one of the few cold days we have had this fall, although the weather is supposed to turn cold this weekend, and Marlo....and so also Zoe....insisted on wearing a skirt and not bringing a warmer jacket because it was so warm in the apartment. They look like they are having a good time, but they were chilled for sure.
If you walk under ground from one building to another, you reach the museum of modern art which is artwork in its self....everything is triangular. Even the elevator isn't square.
We went and ate pizza for lunch and then when we got home I took a 3 hour nap. I needed it!
We are still trying to get tickets to go to the top of the Washington monument. Marlo is dying to take the elevator to the top, but so far we are 0 for 4 trying to get tickets. I may go tomorrow since my class gets out early. We'll have to see.