Arlington House

On the way to see the changing of the guard we walked through Arlington House, the ancestral home of Robert E. Lee's wife's family (her grandfather fought during the Revolutionary War, and was so taken with George Washington that he named his son, her father, George Washington Custis). She inherited it from her father only to lose it six years later when the War Between the States broke out. After the war, the grounds of the plantation were used as a cemetery that would become Arlington National Cemetery. The main house, pictured here, is absolutely beautiful on the outside (my picture doesn't do it justice), but the inside is still fairly primitive and is being renovated.

After leaving we saw the changing of the guard. It was touching, but nowhere near as inspiring as the Evening Parade at 8th and I.