I slept fairly late today, but after I woke up and got ready, I went and found somewhere to get my hair trimmed up!  :)  My bangs were getting rather long and annoying so I figured it was time to go.  This was the first time I'd had my hair cut my a male... he was really good and was very good about making sure what he was doing to your hair was alright with you... He also was very complementary of the color of my hair and how good of condition it was in... He actually seemed very surprised that my hair is naturally colored.

Anyway, after I got my hair cut I went back into dc again.  I got off at L'Enfant plaza and stopped at the First Union to get some money.  Then I walked to the National Building Museum.  En route I took a few pictures...  It was such a nice day, I couldn't go without taking a picture of the capitol.  The picture doesn't do it justice... the sun was reflecting off of the surface of the dome... it was very pretty.

A picture looking back onto Pennsylvania Ave...

Then I passed what I believed to be the US Surpreme Court building at the time ... but in actuality it was just the Supreme Court of DC... all the same it was a pretty cool building.

Then, after grabbing a bite to eat for lunch at a McDonald's I passed, I reached the National Building Museum.  The exhibits were kinda neat, but the building was even more impressive...

Then, I walked across the street to the Judiciary Square Metro station and rode to Union Station.  Right next door to Union station is the National Postal Museum, so I went in to explore the exhibits there.  It was a pretty small museum... Only a few exhibits just to explain the history of mail in the US.  The picture below is a picture of the upper level of the building the postal museum is located in.

Then I went back to Union Station to go to the bookstore there.  I bought two books!  Now maybe I'll do some more pleasure reading!  I picked up The Life of Pi and I even broke down and got the first Harry Potter book to see what all the hype is about... it was on sale for about $5 so I didn't figure it was too bad of a purchase.  Also while I was there, I walked past this store and saw that they sell t-shirts with the map of the Metrorail system printed on them! LOL. Maybe if I manage to get off at every metro stop by the end of the summer I'll go back and get one! (very unlikely that I'll finish all the stops... ) I took the first picture looking through the archways in front of the entrance to Union Station.  The second picture is of the dome of the Capitol Building from Union Station

I caught the metro from Union Station to Federal Triangle and walked to the Old Post Office Pavilion.  This was much more impressive than I had expected.  I thought it was just going to be some shops in an old building... but I even got to go up to the top of the tower!

Pictures of the DC Skyline from the top of the Old Post Office:

Finally, I decided to go back towards Maryland.  So I walked from the Old Post office Pavilion to the Archives-Navy Memorial Metro stop.  On the way I passed the National Archives.  The first statue says "What is Past is Prologue," and the second says "Study the Past".

And I made it back to College Park about 6pm.  I think I've made a very respectable dent in my list of places in DC to see by the end of the summer.  Provided I don't stay the extra weekend after RISE ends, I only have one more weekend actually in DC, since next weekend I'll be in NY and two weeks after that in Oshkosh with the Design Team.