Day #11 in DC: Washington National Cathedral

2015-08-09USA Standard

[Photos from 09 AUGUST 2015, posted shortly on 28 October 2015. Aaalmost there!]

The main events I recall from this day were me going shopping with Anna, and then all of the Icelanders driving over to visit the Washington National Cathedral, which looked like so many other cathedrals, except for being weirdly young. (29 images total)

Hey, look, it’s a huge building!

Ah, but before I begin, how about a tiny insight into mother-daughter bonding at Starbucks, before spending an hour in next door Barnes & Noble (a huge bookstore).

Anyway. At the church, we’d just missed the last guided tour of the day, so we were on our own. The first thing we did was take the elevator up to the 7th floor.

Destination: Floor 7.

There were pretty views to be had up on the 7th floor, and a nice exhibition about an earthquake which damaged the building significantly.

There were pretty views to be had up on the 7th floor, and a nice exhibition about a 2011 earthquake which damaged the building significantly.

I think that black-roofed building houses the cafe we visited afterwards(?).

The kids weren’t very impressed, even when I tried to tell them why there are flying buttresses.

They started building this church in 1907, and “finished” it in 1990, so some of the stained glass windows have different motifs from your regular standard cathedral. This window for example, has embedded an actual rock fragment from the moon.