Elderhostel Program

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Elderhostel Program

City Highlights

Washington, D. C.

December 13-18, 2012

 

Noel Brazil, Group Leader

 

dinner at the Club Quarter hotel

 

Benjamin Cooling told us about
'The Day Lincoln was almost Shot - the Fort Stevens Story"

 

met the locals

 

on the way to the Metro

 

Christmas Market in front of the National Portrait Gallery

Photos of the National Portrait Gallery

 

Lincoln portrait

 

viewed the hall of the former Patent Office

 

Dupont Circle

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desert at the hotel

 

Akram Elias, told us about Freemasonry

 

lunch at the hotel

 

Union Station

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Elderhosteler on the move

 

to tour the United States Capitol

 

 

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under the dome

 

walked to the Library of Congress

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took the Metro to Shaw

 

lunch buffet at the Howard Theatre

 

and then the show

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dinner at Bistro D'oc
across the street from Ford's Theatre

 

where we saw "the Christmas Carol"

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Washington National Cathedral

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high tea at Tudor Place

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House of the Temple

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Farewell dinner

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