Mr. and Mrs. Hill go to Washington

Chris and I decided to go to DC for our anniversary this year, and there was more than a little nerdy museum-going and a lot of airplanes. Like this one!

 And this one.

And all these! This is the new extension of the Air and Space Museum that was built out by Dulles on enough land that they can always expand. Well, depending on the money. It's a really well done space, because the hangar allows so many layers of planes, but they have catwalks so you can get up close to the ones hanging from the ceiling. 

And this one...wait. That's the space shuttle Discovery. For reals.

Really really cool. Can't explain how cool it was to be that close to a REAL space shuttle. 

Tiles! Yay materials science!

Our hotel (go Groupon!) was only 2 blocks from the Capitol building.

Remember that hat Chris hijacked from me at Christmas? He really needed it. It was very very cold, which would have been tolerable if we hadn't been walking through the wind. But we strove on and had a good time!

And I got to use my orange coat with its marvelous tall collar.

Go tigers!

For some reason I got fixated on Sputnik on this trip. It amazes me that you could see this from earth when it's only the size of a basketball. Or a little bigger. 

While there, we got to visit some friends from Clemson who live in Maryland now, which was nice, but I didn't get a picture of them. Just take my word for it.

Oh, also, if you ask Chris about our trip, his story will likely start with how bad the roads up there are. Granted, we were in his car, which isn't exactly a floating cloud, but the roads were pretty rough.