So this post will be mostly pictures, as we're living the dream, or our dreams of visiting the East Coast monuments and being reminded of the reasons for which they were constructed... the revolution, a new government, freedom of religion, freedom from slavery, etc...
I'm amazed at the humility and perseverance of our fore fathers as they were required to "fight" for everything they had. I believe nothing great ever happens without alot of work and faith. We're better for having spent time in our nations capital.
The pictures below: Will in front of Jefferson's home in Monticello. Jefferson is an amazing individual not only did he draft the declaration of independence; he was an architect, lawyer, paleontologist, agriculturalist, a violinist, he read seven languages, and the list goes on.
The library of Congress was my favorite building. Every corner was designed to symbolized the birth of a great nation.
The larger than life statue of Lincoln... a well deserved monument for the man who was president of a divided country during the civil war.
Will and I visited the place where 170,000 americans went to battle and 50,000 of them lost their lives in the three day battle of Gettysburg.
Will and I became a part of the East Coast flooding on our way to New York City to visit his sister in Brooklyn.
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I loved Monticello! That was part of our trip when we went there last year!
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