From the top of the Washington Monument

All those past years, we never got a chance to climb to the top of the Washington Monument and today was our chance. The stars seemed aligned except for the weather that was rainy and drizzly all day.

When we got near the obelisk-shaped building, the wind blew so hard that it turned our umbrella inside out, but that didn't stop us, we bravely rode up the elevator to its observation deck, some 550 feet up.

There, all the windows were covered with rain with no windshield wipers available, so we stayed glued to the glass and used our imagination the best we could.

We saw the White House, waived at President Obama, but we couldn't see precisely as he must have responded to our friendly greeting. Probably too much rain on the window for us to see!