After all of that walking we still had the capitol building tour to go on. But it was really neat and I learned alot of stuff. We went to Senetar Crapo's office and the intern showed us around. We went underground across the street to the Capitol Building. It was nice to be in a well tempetured area. We got to see some neat things. Like they have a whisper spot were someone from the North could hear the South plan the civil war. I really enjoyed myself there too. Its a good thing that I like history. After we went on the tour we went to Union Station which is now a mall and had dinner and rode the metro home. The total trip was 10 and 1/2 hours. Most of it was walking. Andrew quesses we walked atleast 8 miles that day.
outside the National Capitol Building.
This is a exact replica of the lady that is on top of the Capitol building except this one weights alot less and is not made out of copper. The on on top of the building only weighs 15,000 pounds and she is resting on a dome that weighs 9,000 lbs.
They had these paintings over the doors of important events in history. This one is of the first moon walk but they also have the space shuttle challenger and stuff like that. Some of the doors are not painted yet.
They purchased this chandelier in the 70 for like 1500 dollars which was well below what it was worth.
This is the middle of the Capitol building. This is a picture on the ceiling. It is of Washington surrounded by 13 ladies which represents the 13 original colonies.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were kinda rivals. They always had bets on which one was going to be president first. When Adams won Jefferson pained off the artist to make him look more masculine and for Adams to look more feminine. He paid him the equivilant of $48 now a days.
You can see in this picture Jefferson standing on Adams foot.
Each state was asked to donate 2 statues of important people from thier state they are placed in differant places in the Capitol building but alot of them are in this room. I am standing infront of one of the ones donated by Utah and it is no other then Brigham Young.
This is where the zip code system starts so standing in the middle of this is standing in 4 differant zip codes
This is the old supreme court house. When the old judges retired they were able to take thier chairs with them. When they were restoring this room they asked the families to donate the chairs and 3 of them did.
outside the National Capitol Building.
This is a exact replica of the lady that is on top of the Capitol building except this one weights alot less and is not made out of copper. The on on top of the building only weighs 15,000 pounds and she is resting on a dome that weighs 9,000 lbs.
They had these paintings over the doors of important events in history. This one is of the first moon walk but they also have the space shuttle challenger and stuff like that. Some of the doors are not painted yet.
They purchased this chandelier in the 70 for like 1500 dollars which was well below what it was worth.
This is the middle of the Capitol building. This is a picture on the ceiling. It is of Washington surrounded by 13 ladies which represents the 13 original colonies.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were kinda rivals. They always had bets on which one was going to be president first. When Adams won Jefferson pained off the artist to make him look more masculine and for Adams to look more feminine. He paid him the equivilant of $48 now a days.
You can see in this picture Jefferson standing on Adams foot.
This is where the zip code system starts so standing in the middle of this is standing in 4 differant zip codes
This is the old supreme court house. When the old judges retired they were able to take thier chairs with them. When they were restoring this room they asked the families to donate the chairs and 3 of them did.
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