Washington Museums

Wingy returned at 4 in the morning following his pub crawl.  At one point he even had to wait outside with a 50 year old lady becuase neither of them had id proving that they were over 21 and they did not recognise a Aussie Drivers licence!

Spent the morning visiting the Holocaust Museum which was very interesting.  I never knew that a big part of Hitler's plan was to sterilize all of the "undesirables" as well as kill of all of the Jews.... interesting but sad.  Have seen lots of these types of museums now and you think that the world has learned and this type of thing could never happen again .. but history has shown that it does (perhaps not on the same scale ... Cambodia, Bosnia, Yugoslavia and probably Iraq).  Left thinking that the Holocaust museum was a way for Americans to justify war.

Proceeded to the Air & Space Museums (yes more planes - but hopefully the last of the trip!).  The cool stuff in this museum was the replicate Space Centre, and parts from the Apollo missions and I actually got to touch a rock from the moon.  Wingy was overjoyed to see the *Enterprise* from the Star Trek? series.  I think that this was the model that they based the TV show on???

There are heaps and heaps of museums in Washington and most of them are free.  Could have spent much longer here but neeed to catch a bus that afternoon to Philadelphia.