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Day 55 - A day at the Zoo!

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October 24th 2011
Today, we had planned to visit the National Zoo, so we were up fairly early at around 8:30am. We went down for some breakfast first, once again having the usual toast and jam, before coming back to the room to get ready properly. We knew that the zoo was quite far away (not close enough to walk to anyway), so we checked which lines we needed to get on the metro map that we had picked up on our fir ... read more

North America » United States » District of Columbia » Washington D.C.

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more