MJ #8

Hello, everyone and welcome back to Kendra's Great DC Adventures! This week was week I'll be telling about our trip to Chinatown in D.C.! First I'll tell a little bit about Chinatown! Now this is journey #8 but this is my 7th journey.

Chinatown is a small neighborhood in Washington, DC. It has many Chinese businesses and restaurants as well as other Asian businesses as well. It's historic and is known for the Chinese New Year festival and parade that happens every year.

It's also known for the Friendship Arch, a traditional Chinese gate built by a local artifact (Alfred H. Lui). It’s worth 1 million dollars. The arch includes 272 painted dragons, 7000 tiles and 7, 60 foot high roofs.

The first place we went to on this journey was the National Building Museum. We went to one of the only not crowded exhibits, PLAY WORK BUILD. 

This exhibit was fun, but I'm not great at this engineering thing. It was cool, though. We stayed here for a while and built things, then had to go to our next stop, 

IT'SUGAR!

This place had so much awesome candy! I don't like a lot of different candies, but I love chocolate and they had A LOT of it. I bought some fin sized Reese's cups. 

It was kind of expensive for the small amount of candy I bought, almost 4 dollars, but it was worth it.

Next up was lunch! I started off excited for lunch, but got disappointed once we went to McDonald's. I got over it, though. After I finished some nuggets, and everyone else finished too, we headed to Ford Theater. We bought tickets and saw a few exhibits. It was cool.

" On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln visited Ford’s for his twelfth time for a performance of Our American Cousin. At this performance, Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth; he died the next morning in the Petersen House, a boarding house located across the street. Ford’s Theatre remained closed for more than 100 years." - click here.

Yes, this is in fact the actual theater that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in, that opened back up in 1968. Also, that place in the quote, the Peterson House, yeah we went there too! It was small and kind of sad to see the bedroom where he died. 

Lastly was  this small Chinese trading company. It had plenty of cool things to buy. I thought it was nice. 

Now I know this was pretty short, but that's all that happened! It was still really fun. Thanks for reading! :D