After completing our last big Greyhound journey (an 18 hour beauty) we are here in DC. Today we got up early, went for a coffee and bought sandwiches and crisps for our big tourist day out! It's really nice to be in a city with a decent transport system, something we haven't really experienced since SF. We hit up the Mall, where all the museums and art gallery's are FREEE! So after messing about taking 'comedy' photos of us pretending to hold up the Washington monument (god love depth of field magic) we visited the Natural History Museum. Lucy gazed at the Hope diamond, I gazed at the tarantulas being fed, we both gazed at the forensics section - think deteriorating old bones and skulls with gunshot wounds. We wanted to hold the cockroaches that were
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