They are restoring the dome of the Capitol - scraping off all the lead based paint, repairing the cracks, glueing back on all the decorative bits that have fallen off. It will take until 2017, and we got in to see the inside of the Rotunda the last day it would be open, until 2017, so we feel a bit of a sense of achievement.
More enjoyable than I expected, less boring than you expect of a Parliament building. Bigger than I thought. Tip: visit in afternoon. we were forced into early 11am lunch, because no food or drink, not even unopened things, are allowed in there. Waterbottles had to be empty. Security friendliness is somewhere between Statue of Liberty (cranky, suspicious) and airports (usually quite friendly, so long as you do what they say).
I think this photo is of the South Lawn, where officially, you're not allowed to toboggan, but made news last Winter because people did toboggan.
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