Saturday, June 4, 2016

Capital Yacht Club, Washington DC, Day 3

We have a leisurely breakfast on the boat and then walk to the Mall and to the Washington Monument. Crowds are too big to even think about going up the monument. We walk onto the Reflecting Pool, by the National WWII Memorial and to the Lincoln Memorial. As we walk towards the Lincoln Memorial we keep passing people holding up signs trying to engage passerby's on their view of their religion. Many others are standing around preaching to the crowds walking by and ignoring them. Looking further we see quite a large crowd of people around the west half of the Reflecting pool. Oh great we are going to a holy roller convention ! Well it turns out to be the Reason Rally 2016 “the biggest gathering of nonreligious people in history” supporting public policy based on scientific evidence, not religious beliefs, separation of church and state.
The Reason Rally 2016 at the Reflecting pool
So of course this brings out the religious kooks who are going to show these people the errors of their ways. I stop at many entertaining discussions with small groups with opposing views which are for the most part civil. I find it highly amusing. I keep thinking of a line that was recently heard on the VHF radio towards a rather ignorant boater, “You are just a special kind of stupid”. 
 





After we go to the Lincoln Memorial we walk to the Vietnam Memorial, our main goal for the day.

























For lunch we head back to the Pavilion Cafe. Then we go to the Natural History Museum to catch an I-Max movie on the National Parks.

Down by the Wharf near the Yacht Club we kept passing an outdoor rib place where they smoke them right there. Well, this time we stop and by some to bring back to the boat for dinner.
 
Sabrina and Linda, Ribs on the Potomac

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