Their timing again being perfect for site-seeing, the Capitol Visitor's Center (CVC) opened the very week that Jon's parents and Jeremy came to visit. So of course we made sure to go see it! We were really impressed with it (and we should be, seeing as it cost $621 million of our tax dollars) and we would highly recommend it for everyone to go see. It has these really cool glass ceilings that you can see the Capitol through (the CVC is underground). We just went to the 13 min. movie, which we enjoyed, especially to get a quick version of what goes on in Congress and to make you feel all proud to be an American because of the replaying theme "of many...one."
We got some pics with some of the statues that didn't fit in the Capitol and have thus overflowed to the CVC--the most important ones being Hawaii's King ____ (some really long Hawaiian name, don't be mad at me for not remembering it Jer!) and Utah's Philo T. Farnsworth, father of the television. Van, again, was a silent, sleeping tourist the entire time. But he got his own ticket to the movie nonetheless, as you can see stuck to his beenie. We couldn't get over how easy he makes it for us to get out and keeping doing the things we love!
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