We got up before roosters and the dawn, called a cab and drove to the ticket office. We got there an hour before they opened the window and there were at least 99 people already waiting. I made a good use of the hour and watched the rising sun painting Lincoln Memorial all golden while the moon was slowly setting behind it. By the time the ticket office opened, the line was at least 500 meters long. Since we were not able to plan our day so well, we took tickets for 12pm and 1pm visits (tickets were for free, btw).
Anyway, we made it there by 12pm, enjoyed the endless views of all the political buildings and not-political areas. Since we still had the 1pm tickets, we walked to the ticket office in the hope to find some other lousy planner there, who’s naively trying to buy the tickets still. And exactly as expected - we made the day of a German couple, who now had the chance to go up in half an hour.
We had lunch again on the Union Market, where Scott had arepa and me salmon salad. From there we walked through a residential area to Barrack Row, which was supposed to have amazing street art. We found one graffiti. So, we went to sit on a terrace, where Scott ordered a bottomless mimosa. On the way back we found a veggie garden right next to the Congress with some pumpkins, rhubarb, beets and some more items.
For the dinner we had chosen Roofers Union, but once arrived, it turned out that on this lovely day they were closed. We ate in the Turkish place across the street and it was delicious.
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