a Fun Sunday in Washington, DC - Wax and Plants

Sunday at noon, Tom and I met our friends Jeff and Gary and Fitz and Will in Washington, DC at Union Station (the Amtrak station). The station was beautifully decorated for Christmas -and well worth seeing. There was a tree from Norway decorated with American and Norwegian flags. Boughs of Holly were everywhere with big red bows and white lights. Outside, there was a huge wreath hanging from the front of the station, and Fitz took this really cool photo of it, with the marbled clouded sky behind it. After a quick lunch at Union station, we walked through the National Botanic Garden, which was nicely decorated with models of the famous Washington, DC buildings made out of wood and plant matter. It was chaos inside though with waaaaay too many people. After that, we walked several blocks in the freezing cold to Madame Toussad's Wax Museum. It was a great place!! The wax figures were where you could touch them and pose next to them. Some were hauntingly accurate, others, like Madonna, were not. - All in all it's a cool place, and you can get some cool pics. Even Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are there! - including many other presidents. Jeff and I decided to be goofy and don the false "Mink Stoles" to pose next to Jacquie and John Kennedy, as Tom and the others looked on with grins.