The D.C. To-Do List: An Archive

This is an archival posting of my successfully completed D.C. To-Do List, which has served its purpose, and therefore will no longer grace the sidebar of this blog.  Follow the hyperlinked dates to the relevant blog posts.  What a delightful list of three years of D.C. memories.

To-Do List:

• Go on a tour of the White House. (DONE: 5/21/11)
• Tour the beautiful grounds of the Franciscan Monastery. (DONE: 5/20/11)
• Finally go inside the National Building Museum. (DONE: 2/22/11)
• Watch dollars being printed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. (DONE: 2/22/11)
• Marvel at the trompe l'oeil of the Ghost Clock at the Renwick Gallery. (DONE: 2/19/11)
• View the Capital from the observation deck of the Old Post Office Tower. (DONE: 2/19/11)
• Attend a Supreme Court oral argument. (DONE: 11/9/10)
• See a play by the Shakespeare Theatre Company. (DONE: 10/23/10)
• Spend some time at the Holocaust Memorial Museum. (DONE: 9/25/10)
• Eat French fries at The Tombs in Georgetown. (DONE: 9/18/10)
• See the bonsai trees at the National Arboretum. (DONE: 9/18/10)
• Eat lunch at the Mitsitam Café at the National Museum of the American Indian. (DONE: 9/9/10)
• See Jefferson's home at Monticello. (DONE: 5/20/10)
• Visit the Newseum. (DONE: 5/16/10)
• Go inside the Smithsonian Castle. (DONE: 5/11/10)
• Visit the National Museum of Natural History. (DONE: 5/11/10)
• Watch the changing of the guard at Arlington National Cemetery. (DONE: 4/2/10)
• Eat a half-smoke and cheese fries at Ben's Chili Bowl. (DONE: 1/20/10)
• Take the Chinatown bus to New York City. (DONE: 10/16/09)
• Check out the parents of the leopard cubs at the National Zoo. (DONE: 9/21/09)
• Figure out if there is anything beside stamps at the National Postal Museum. (DONE: 9/18/09)
• Go to Mt. Vernon. (DONE: 8/29/09)
• Visit the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. (DONE: 5/11/09)
• Attend the Cherry Blossom Festival. (DONE: 3/28/09)
• Get a Library of Congress Reader Identification Card. (DONE: 2/28/09)
• Go to the top of the Washington Monument. (DONE: 1/23/09)
• Attend the 2009 Presidential Inauguration. (DONE: 1/20/09)
• See the U.S. Constitution at the National Archives. (DONE: 1/19/09)
• Attend Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. (DONE: 1/8/09)
• See snow fall in D.C. (DONE: 11/18/08)
• Attend the Red Mass at St. Matthew's Cathedral. (DONE: 10/5/08)