"Well, when in Rome" I said as I was handed a shot of tequila.
"Rome?" someone asked me.
"Yeah, they built this place to look exactly like it."
And indeed they had. Most of the important buildings I had seen earlier that day were adorned with columns, white marble, and intricate carvings depicting oddly roman looking scenes of people draped in togas. Even the rotunda within the National Archives sported 2 incredibly large murals depicting our founding fathers in romanesque garb signing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; both of which were on display below.
Washington DC was wierd because everything here was so real. No smoke and mirrors. No replica of a roman castle. This was solid granite. This was the actual Apollo 11 (another rome reference?) that had orbited the moon in 1969. Yes, everything here felt real. And I felt real, too.
More on Capitol City later.
See Eric's photos of DC here and more of my photos here.
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You know we have a picture of you by this when you were little
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