Camping out for the Washington Monument??

So we stopped by the Washington monument to see if any tickets were available. It turns out that you have to be at the monument at 6:30 am to get tickets (they have 800 a day) The cranky man behind the counter was sick of answering this question! So basically you have to be here at the crack of dawn to wait up to 11 hours to enter the obelisk! Off to some museums!!