Washington Day 7 - Inhuman treatment

The blog titles seem a little heavy, but in a land where there's comparative freedom, it is important to remember times and places where that has not been the case.
We started the day with cold and rain, so after breakfast we stayed in and caught up with family at home.
For lunch we went to TGIs, it was not a great experience. The TGIs atmosphere does not work at lunch times. The food was OK, if slightly on the expensive side, but we have had better.  Robbie needed more sleep, so we didn't set off for Washington until 3pm.
Robert went to watch the Denmark vs USA football, the rest of us went to the holocaust museum. By the time we got there all the day's allocation of tickets for the main exhibition had been used. This was very disappointing. However we could still visit the special exhibitions. These seemed dedicated to trying to answer the question "How could it have happened?" The answer seems to be that ordinary people are easily manipulated, succumb to their own greed easily without thinking of the consequences for others and generally live in fear of the authorities.  Some, only a few,  did not turn a blind eye, or passively participate, but that is not the story they are trying to tell. It was an upsetting show, I wonder what the effect of the main exhibition would have been.  While I don't agree with Human Rights without Human Responsibilities, it is a better place to be than Nazi Germany, and means that such extremes are much harder to repeat.

We then walked up to the Washington monument, where there is little information on the outside.  It is after 5pm now and the monument is closed. Why does it change colour about a third of the way up? It is an impressive stone tower, but without more context I cannot make any more comments.

For tea we visited the Elephant and Castle.  A busy English style pub, unfortunately the food was not great, mine was at best luke warm and unevenly so. Others were also disappointed. The manager did sort out a couple of other complaints, in the usual way, but we won't be going back.

The extra sleep has worked for Robbie, he is having a great time waving at people and laughing and grinning to himself and us. I have been very impressed with the way people have responded to him.  always positive, and actively encouraging him.

On returning to the hotel I continued my blogging on a Microsoft Surface 2.  When Karen set it up for me the Windows O/S has all the same problems as regular windows.  I am using IE, and getting all sorts of blogger errors I have never seen before. The App store apparently only has one twitter client - the official one, which leaves a lot to be desired. It gets the job done, but it won't kill Android, so I doubt it will come close to competing with the iPad either.

We await Windows 10, with low expectations.