Day 12 - Washington DC

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Day 12 – Friday – Washington DC

It's late and im tired and we have an early start, so im stealing some (ok a whole heap) of John & Jen's travel blog to put in here!!!!!

We're hitting the warmer weather and had a beautiful day today to tour DC. For the first time in our US part of the trip, we were hot. The temperature has reached a sweaty 27 degrees and we are wondering what Orlando will have in store for us.

Today we headed in via the Metro system and took a hop on hop off tour of the city. We were driven by the majestic buildings such as the Capitol Building, The Smithsonian, Jefferson Memorial, Washington Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Arlington Cemetary and, of course, the White House.

We were impressed by the Washington Memorial that is held up by gravity alone (no mortar at all) and the Iwo Jima Memorial at Arlington Cemetery. That was a lot bigger than we expected.

We also had chance to pop into the Natural History Museum, which is part of the Smithsonian, to see the Hope Diamond and lots of other very large sparkly stones. John was worried as Jen took photos of them all in case she was constructing her Christmas wish list!

All in all we liked the buildings and look of Washington DC, but the local population made it a little trying - as examples, we almost got strip searched before we could get into a place for lunch and everyone kept telling us when to cross the road whether we wanted to or not in a way that suggested that if we didnt comply immediately they would cuff us up against the bonnet of the nearest car!

After the helpfulness of the Boston and Niagara population, we felt the DCers could do with a course in public relations. Roll on Orlando!

Oh well!! We did though have a YUMMMY dinner (Red Lobster, ANOTHER American chain hahaha). Tomorrow we head towards Orlando, with a stop over in Columbia.

Oh - and we DID manage to hit THREE yes THREE states today. Well ok ok, TWO states (Virginia & Maryland) and one district (DC) lol!


"Dean's Details" – Other than the big buildings and museums, (and cops on Segways) Washington DC doesn't have a whole lot going for it.

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Photos

Iwo Jima Flag Raising
This is the statue (at Arlington Cemetary) based on the most reprodcued photo in history.

Capitol Building
A bit closer than the day before!

Jefferson Memorial
Inside. "We hold these truths to be self evident..."

Jefferson
The bust and quote inside the memorial

DaS with Abe
With Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial

Gettysburg Address
"Four Score...."

Dean in front of the Washington Monument
We kept giggling and re-enacting scenes from Forest Gump at this point (oh so sad how all we've learnt about America is from movies!)

Arlington Cemetary
The graves just seemed to go on forever

Police Transportation
The police use these cool Segways around the city!!!

Hope Diamond
Mmm 45 Carats (ok have to admit, i wasnt overly impressed)

Bling bling
This however DID impress me! hehehe

Comments

[kazi,.]

glad you are all having fun.
Hey guys, so glad you are having a great time. Thank deb for the recipe she has add, I think it needs to be added to our list of drinks next time you visit canberrrrra. Dean, your comments are great.

[Debbie]

Here is my recipe
Okay here is my version of the milky way martini (note you must use the good stuff...i.e. grey goose vodka) Milky way Martini: 2 oz. grey goose vanilla vodka 2 oz. dark creme de cacao 1 oz. baileys irish creme Mix all in chilled martini shaker and enjoy!