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Today we went down to the Norman Rockwell exhibit at the National American Art Museum which is part of the many Smithsonian museums. This show did not disappoint at all, and was actually the highlight of our trip. This was George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg's private Rockwell collection. It comprised about 45 paintings/drawing of Rockwell. They show was laid out very well and had a great short 15 min interview with Spielberg/Lucas on Rockwell. We quickly went through the rest of the museum and saw some nice Thayer paintings along the way. The Portrait Gallery Museum is also part of this museum. Tamiko really enjoyed the Rockwell which was a nice bonus. We went over to a pizza place across the street. Here we had a very good meal. Afterwards Tamiko wanted to go back and see the Rockwell show again (it was free) which really made me happy because I never tire seeing Rockwell's work. We headed down to the National Archive. Here we saw the original Declaration of Independance, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. This was very awe inspiring. Sadly both the Declaration and Bill of Rights had been handled so much over the years that most of them were illegible. Still to see these magnificent documents of American history was breathtaking. We walked around the rest of the Archive and enjoyed numerous sites. Surprisingly this ended up taking most of the day with little much open still we decided to take in a movie, "The Switch" with Anniston and Bateman. It was a bad little comedy. I liked Bateman and the child in it. We found Chinatown around the corner and ate at a promising place. It turned out to be some of the worst Chinese food either of us had, and by this time on a Sunday most places were sadly closed. Must say that the food in DC that we discovered has only been so-so. One day left so we hope to fix that.