No, not the TV show, but about an actual Hill.  Actually, it is called “the Hill” by the locals.  Anyway, we’ve already visited this location:

And another view for those of you who LOVE flags:

Totally American.  These colors don’t run, yo.  Anyway, let’s get back to the Hill.  I was on and off the Hill for almost five years.  I watched it change.  I watched it in its good moments and its bad moments.  It was my work place for many years and where I lived.  I know the Capitol extremely well and I was happy to be able to visit it again.  I saw it with a friend who had never been there.  I remember being able to wonder hither and thither, but alas those days are over.  But it is still really interesting on the inside:

The rotunda is lovely and looking it close up you really get the details:

Our motto, out of many, one.  Also, there is this thing on the outer ring of the rotunda:

I know this gent is mining for gold, but he really looks like he is just swinging a golf club.  Appropriate for our golf loving congress persons.  The Capitol is fully of funny things, like the fact that a lot of the rotunda painting are wrong and feature drag queens and George Washingtons (plural).  The Capitol is also a place of passageways and the past.  Check this out:

This is the old Supreme Court chamber.  Before Diana and the girls met across the street, they met here.

Pink skies, just like in the Bahamas:

And finally, this is my favorite item in the Capitol:

Crystals, lovely, lovely and and and…  it is a chandelier the Architect of the Capitol bought from an exclusive crystal maker in Austria.  No, no.  It is from a movie theater in Baltimore!  Movie theater.  I bet it still smells like popcorn.  USA!  USA!  USA!