Blogs from Cheverly, Maryland, United States, North America

9am off to the coach to get a ride into DC. Michelle, Lauren and I decided to make our first stop the Holocaust Museum. It’s been said it is the best museum in DC, and after going there I have to agree. We were there for around 2 hours, and it was so well set up, and if you were to read everything and look at every picture you could just about be there all day. It was really heartbreaking though as well… A very touching tribute to the victims of the Holocaust. Our next couple of stops were fairly rushed, we knew what we wanted to see so we kinda just walked in and out. We went to the American History Museum, where we saw the original Star Spangled Banner - the one the song ... read more

Brekkie was set up in our own little quarters downstairs, then at 8am we headed out to the coach. We were taken to Arlington Cemetery, where we saw the changing of the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and JFK’s gravesite. He has his son on one side of him, Jackie O next to him, with a plot for his daughter next to her. Just around the corner is Robert Kennedy’s gravesite, and I’d imagine that around this area is where they’ve buried recently deceased Edward Kennedy. After this we saw the Iwo Jima Memorial (yet another war memorial). We then got dropped at the Smithsonian Museums. The first thing we did was go visit Obama crew at the White house. The flag was flying high which I believe means he was home? So ... read more

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. ... read more