Visiting the Department of the Interior

This last week took us to places that we had never been to before. The reason was to get a photo for the weekly challenge that I belong to. The subject was “unexplored.” So we drove in to town, parked at the Tidal Basin, walked up 17th Street and then over to the Department of the Interior. We have been through many federal buildings that require security checks. Working at the Library of Congress for ten years was a daily walk through the magnetometer. This place required not only photo id’s and signatures, wearing a visitor badge that would need to be returned, and then walking through the magnetometer. It seemed rather over the top - especially for a place that hardly had anything in their museum to even look at. I had looked it up on the website before we went and it seemed like there would be a lot more to see than there was. At least if we could have seen some of the beautiful wall murals it might have been worth the trip. For all the wonderful things that the department does you would never know it by looking at the tiny and scant amount of artifacts and information. Even the short film needed to be updated. Needless to say it was a disappointment, and I didn’t get a photo for the challenge either. But at least it gave us an opportunity to explore a part of the city that we hadn’t been to before.