No Tourists Here

Yesterday I had the opportunity to go downtown DC and look around a little. I got off the bus and started walking down F Street. I stopped in a few shops along the way but mainly I was just walking around trying to occupy my time as I was going to meet a friend in a little bit. I turned down 10th Street and noticed a lot of tourists, mind you I am not one, and thought "oh look at all those tourists, glad I'm not one of them." They were going in and out of tourist gift shops exclaiming how great and wonderful the stuff inside was. One lady could hardly stop from yelling as she told her not so interested husband that the pencil she was holding had drawings of all the great monuments of DC on it. It's a pencil, it isn't that cool.

As I continued down the street I saw a sign that said "this is the house were Lincoln died." I thought that Lincoln died in a theater not a house. As I continued to look at the sign and the building it was attached to I saw people walking up the stairs in a line with a tour guide leading them. Thinking there must be something legitimate to the building and not sure what to think about the house I looked around the street to see if a theater was near by. Sure enough directly across the street was Ford's Theater where Lincoln was shot and then he was brought to the house and later died there. At this point I wanted to take a picture of the historical place but didn't want to seem like a tourist, but I was in a tourist area with lots of tourists around; I could blend in for a minute. So here are my non-tourist pictures.

This is Ford's Theater.




This is the house directly across the street from Ford's Theater where Lincoln died.

A little further down the street is the J. Edger Hoover building otherwise known as the FBI building. Did you know that this year celebrates the 100th birthday of the FBI. I think the whole building is made out of concrete, at least that is what is looked like.