Blogs from Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America - page 8

Washington D.C. - 34°c When the alarm went off this morning, I felt the worst I’ve felt all trip. I didn’t get much sleep at all in between all of my coughing and sneezing, with my cold symptoms running very high. I contemplated staying in bed. Missing the coach drop off at 9am would mean having to pick up a taxi into the city later on in the day. Feeling as though I ought to keep powering through, (and not wanting to pick up the $40 cab ride, being so far out of the centre) I got up, had a long shower and managed to get on the coach with about 15 others. Apparently the night had extended quite far into the early morning for many, and subsequently it was a very empty coach trip into ... read more

Washington D.C. - 32°c After dosing up on medication last night and sleeping quite heavily throughout the night, it was a bit of a struggle to get up when the alarm on my mobile phone went off at 7am today. Thankfully after a fairly cold shower owing to the fact that I can’t get to grips with how the taps work in this hotel, I was slightly more rejuvenated and ready for quite a big day, and whatever D.C. had to throw at me! After two slices of toast downstairs in the ‘do it yourself’ breakfast room and bumping into several of the group who were already down there, and those arriving after I did, we boarded the bus and headed off at 8am. Owing to a bit of morning traffic, along with the distance needed ... read more

Below is a sample of photos from my short and crammed week of going aways. I won't normally post just pictures, but in this case it seems to work better since all the words were spoken in person. Thanks to everyone!... read more

Hello, Well, Were still here in Washington DC. Monday we went down the road 9 miles to Six flags America. A theme/water park. Man did we pick the right day. 1st we went and got 4 x seasons passes, fill in the form, get our photo taken, they hand you your season pass. Its good for 15, Six flags parks in the US. Cost me $220. So ive got to go about twice to pay for it. We are going to Great Adventure up by Ross anyway. 1st ride, Tori and I Went on the cheeriplanes. Bit to high for Josh.Then on the sizzler, then we got the whole family onto an old wooden roller coaster, I reckon these ones are the worst. Sure enough it rattled and clanged us up and down, round and around. ... read more

Hello from the Nations Capital still. On friday we caught the metro (subway) down to the Pentagon, Changed lines to get there, thought we were pretty good teaching the kids how to read the underground map and actually getting on the right train going the right direction. There's not much to look at from the outside and of course your'e not allowed on the inside. We did walk around to the memorial, for the people who died from the 9/11 terrorist attack, that flew the plane into the Pentagon. Its quite a cool memorial. 153 people died, 59 were on the plane. We had to use the 'bathroom' while we were there, so there's a portacom toilet there. Typical government department.I opened the door to be met by nice cool air conditioned air coming out. Once ... read more