P.C. wrote:
I know next to nothing of the rest of it....I only have my sights set on the Smithsonian. [img style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="url(this.src);" src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/traurig/a010.gif[/img]
I have absolutely nothing against the Smithsonian—after all, my brother designed one of the exhibits in the Air and Space Museum so it can't be all bad—but given the choice I'd spend my time in the National Gallery. That place, the Met (and NY's other galleries) and the Scaife Gallery at Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh put most of the West Coast's museums to shame.
Usually less crowded than the Smithsonian, too. Oh yeah, whatever you do, don't drive in DC—between the moronic freeway system and the potholes you'll go crazy. Only place I know that rivals the PA and NJ turnpikes for transportational idiocy in the US.