Washington DC



United-States Capitole




Washington Monument

 Unfortunately the computer I use at the hotel doesn't offer me the possibility to show you pictures, but I'll make the effort to describe you my two days in the Capitale of the United States.
Yesterday was a hard day. I woke up at 5 a.m. to leave a safe and very pleasant home. Hereby I'd like to thank Amparo for his generosity and hospitality. I arrived in Washington from Richmond at 9 o'clock. My first worry was to find my hotel to drop off my luggage. Quiet before midday I began freely to visit the city. The weather was windy, cold, freezing. The buildings I visited - the US Capitole, the Library of Congress and the US Supreme Court - were big, large and tall, designed in a greco-romain architecture. It was really confortable to visit the inside of this monuments due to the outside cold weather. The birds were trying to reach the ice of in front of the US Capitole lake.
This morning I woke up in the cold of my motel room. It was hard to get out of the bed, nevertheless the sun shone outside. Programm of the day: American History Museum, Washington Monument, White House and Art Gallery. What I prefer were the History Museum and the Art Gallery. Both were free and could necessite one full day to be visited. Unfortunately it was not allowed to take pictures inside the art gallery.

X-mas illumination

Are you in the mood to celebrate Chrismas? 

Gunshow

In Virginia, it's aload to own and to wear a weappon. It's a constitutionnal right. People worship to buy and sale their riffle, gun, baionnettes etc. The big canon cost 4000 $, interested? Nice decoration for your garden...

Arepas

Corn flour, butter, water, salt and a lot of Mozarella.

Richmond

On the first picture, you can see the entrance of the Black History Museum. It is not a coincidence if the emancipation of the black people lays in the middle of the civil war. The confederate States were against the emancipation. The farm industry needed the slavery. The yankies, who was more industrially developped, didn't need the slavery. The black people emancipation is one of the reason of the civil war. Abraham Lincoln announce the emancipation 1862, and the civil war lasted from 1861 up to 1865.

The man riding the Horse is George Washington, he is the president of the USA who made the country independant from Great Britain and then he presides the writing of the american constition 1887.

This is the St-Johns Church

Parks and Museum from Richmond

Amparo invited me to visit her city. The weather was cold today but we had to many things to look at, to be discouraged. We first begin with a walk in the Maymount Park. This was the property of Sallie and James Dooley who decided to offer their home to the city. The park costs the city 10'000$ a day. Gardeners and farmers take care of the park and its animals. 

The celebrities you can see beside Abraham Lincoln are Amparo Forrero and Myself. One more time we have been told about the civil war. Abraham Lincoln was murdered in Washington DC 10 days after his visit to Jefferson Davis, the leader of the confederacy (South States), in Richmond. Jefferson Davis Hous (last picture) was the head quartier of the Confederacy during the civil war. Amparo and myself had a private guide to visit this important building for the american history. Unfortunatly I don't remember the name of the guide, but it was really casual to visit this monument in a small small group.

On the shopping mall

Amparo and me had a nice time looking at clothes and gadgets in this huge mall. Spending money in shopping center is the first hobby in America. "In god we trust" is the proverb of the american currency. Because God is as much in the churches than in the malls.