Ruth and Joe at the Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Ruth and Joe’s Tenth Wedding Anniversary Day Trip on US Airways:
We flew to Washington, D.C. and enjoyed two of the Smithsonian’s 18 museums and galleries. We started in the original Smithsonian Institution Building (popularly known as the Castle) on November 10, 2006, the 160th anniversary year of the legacy that James Smithson bequeathed this country he never visited. After lunch at the Castle’s cafeteria we walked through the Enid A. Haupt rooftop garden to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery for the exhibit, “In the Beginning, Bibles Before the Year 1000” with Scripture penned in the scroll format used at the time of the birth of Christ [B.C.] to the codex in use a millennium after the death of our Lord [A.D.]: scroll fragments and codices featured from the first ten centuries of the Christian Era were written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopian, Coptic, Early Slavonic, and Anglo-Saxon. Then we hopped back on the Metro from the National Mall, where the Smithsonian is centered between the Capitol and the Washington Monument, to Reagan National Airport. We finished the awesome day dining outdoors at Brio’s next to the beautifully illuminated fountain at South Park’s Piedmont Town Center. Temperatures of the day in Charlotte were likewise nearly sweltering: a new record high of 83º F (previous record-setting high, 80º F in 1945). In the Carolinas, any diurnal range of 40º F—a warming like today—or more is rare.
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Photos: (of and by) Ruth and Joe