Today I took my first trip into the city to meet some fellow South Dakotans for some site-seeing. I rode the Metro in (all by myself, I'm very proud of myself!) and met Theresa Kinyon, Elizabeth and Michael Hofer, John Paul Trask and some of their friends. We visited the National Portrait Gallery, a Smithsonian Art Museum. It was great! There were lots of landscape paintings, a whole wing on Gertrude Stein, and portraits of all the presidents...and that was all on the one floor we saw in the hour we were there! We then went back to Catholic University of America, where Theresa lives. Theresa showed us a little of campus and here dorm. We then trooped over to the Basilica for Mass. Tonight was the Vigil Mass before the March for Life so the Basilica was packed! Apparently, the pews of the church filled up before 3:30...Mass didn't start until 6:30! We ended up sitting downstairs and watching Mass on EWTN. The Basilica is beautiful! I definitely want to go back and get a full tour!
Tomorrow I start my first day at Heritage. We are going to the National Gallery and the National Archives and learning a little about our country and Heritage.
I'll write more tomorrow and let you know how it goes!
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