We finished up our trip to DC with a visit to the west (new) wing of the National Gallery of Art, which was really enjoyable, although I was untouched by the special exhibit of Jasper Johns 1950s work; I just don’t care about art that can be replaced by its description. I know I’m just being ignorant, but, well, I’m ignorant.

We also dipped into the east wing which has just a splendid collection. Totally enjoyable.

Then, because we didn’t want to spend the entire trip going to nothing but art museums, on a whim we went to The Spy Museum. It’s well done and I would have enoyed it if it turned out that I actually cared about spies outside of John Le Carre novels.

We also popped in to the hundred year old synagogue at Sixth and I, which is beautiful on the inside and well marketed on the outside.

Then we got to Dulles way too early for a flight that was only slightly late, came home, cleaned the turtle tank, dropped the full turtle tank (sans turtles) onto the toilet, shattering the tank and depositing a load of gravel in the toilet (and who hasn’t felt that way sometime?), and was thus welcomed back to the workaday world. [Tags: washington_dc dc travel jasper_johns]

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