8.45am Bags to Coach! Stopped at a truck stop just past the Virginia border… Had a lunch stop in Richmond, the capital of Virginia. Cute little area where we stopped - it was here I found blocks of Cadbury’s chocolate!! Was super excited… Tried it later and it was horrible… pathetic excuse for Cadbury’s!! Got to Washington, we were staying just out a bit, in Cheverly at the HoJo!! Haha the Howard Johnson Hotel… Had buffet dinner at a little Italian restaurant next to the hotel, then hopped on the bus for an Illumination tour of Washington Dc. We started at the Capital building, got a few photos, then went to the World War 2 Memorial and Jefferson Memorial before it got dark. We then saw the Lincoln Memorial, Korean Memorial and the Vietnam War Memorial.
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