Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York

Our time in Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York reads like a catalogue of galleries, museums and tourist sights but even if we each only learned one thing from each place we would all be richer for it. The list goes like this:

In Washington, DC, we visited the Library of Congress, Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Museums of Art; Air and Space; Natural History; American Indian; American History; National Portrait Gallery; Freer Gallery and saw Capitol Hill, The Mall, White House and Washington Monument.

In the city of Philadelphia we walked along Elfreth’s Alley where the houses and cobbled streets date from the early 1700’s. We went to the Ben Franklin Museum; Liberty Bell; and Independence Hall. We visited Valley Forge National Park; toured the winter headquarters of George Washington and finished the day with Shoo Fly Pie at the Memorial Chapel Cabin Café.

In New York we went to the Frick Museum of Art; the Guggenheim Museum of Art and Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition; shopping at Macy’s (that’s cultural!); a Chuck Brown concert at Battery Park; open-air movie night at Bryant Park; a Soo Bae cello concert at the Schimmel Centre; dinner at Wo Hop’s in Chinatown; a yoga class in Times Square; the Magic Flute with the New York City Opera, and like all good tourists managed to get lost in Central Park more than once.