The National Portrait Gallery is not just portraits. First it is a wonderfully restored building reminding us of the Library of Congress – high ceilings and plenty of marble. The portraits are the feature, but there are modern paintings and sculpture, satirical graphical displays and some antique furniture. The way they organized all the displays made perfect sense. There were lines, short one, for the new Obama portraits.

Carl Sandburg

Plenty of Obama groupies

 "Portraits" of America too

We spend the day at the Portrait Gallery with cousin Lauve who came in from Vienna, VA and had a lunch mid-gallery time at a Greek/Middle Eastern restaurant – Zatinya.

The evening event was a performance by the Capital Steps. They are a troop that does political satire like Saturday Night Live skits only funnier. They skewered Democrats and Republicans alike. I enjoy comedy, but rarely laugh out loud. This was the exception.