This past weekend was the much anticipated trip to Washington D.C (capital of America) to see AJ & Casey (KC) before AJ flies home to Australia in a few weeks (and of course to get some sights in)! Would you believe it was raining! Last time when the 3 of us (and Allysha) were in Boston rained, I think we are jinxed! So after a painful 4am wake up call, I got a 5.23am train to the city to catch a subway to the bus to take me to D.C! 5 hour tedious bus ride later and I was meeting Casey at the bus stop and we were on our way to 'the mall' the stretch of grass going from Capitol Building to Lincoln Memorial, with all museums and things in between. We first walked to the Washington Monument (the pencil) and then to the WW2 monument and Lincoln Memorial. The washington monument was better to see from far away, the ww2 was really pretty with lovely fountains, quotes and a block of stone with each state's named engraved on it. The lincoln memorial was surprisingly powerful. It was quite a big building and all it housed was his statue, which itself was quite huge. But everyone was really silent inside and he just looked down on you with such power.
We met AJ at lunch time, which we had in 'The Old Post Office Building' before making our way to the American Museum of History. We only had a quick blitz through but saw Dorothy's red shoes, Kermit the frog, Oscar the Grouch and a room with American History items. The shoes were definitly the best!!
Then another hike to the other side of the the mall to see the Capitol Building. We didn't go inside but did see the outside obviously!! The White House was next and the back was closed but we did see the front! It was definitly NOT as big as I thought it would be but it was still great to see Mr Obama's house!
After all the walking and lugging my bag around, we finally stopped at Ruby Tuesday's for dinner (I had nachos yummmmmy). Then the girls took me back to their places (45 minutes away) in Maryland (different state...American's pronounce it Merry-lend).
Whilst Saturday only drizzled in the morning, Sunday POURED all day long! Most of the things I wanted to do were outside or we had to walk too :( So instead we went to the amazingly awesome so much fun waaaay cool INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM! WOOH! It was so cool (except that u couldnt take photos that was ridiculous) they had all kinds of gadgets that spies use, and information about spies and games and interactive components. You could crawl through air ducts,and tunnels and listen to bugged rooms! It was fantastic! The gift shop was good too with lots of merchandise from spy shows/movies like Pink Panther, Spy vs Spy, 24, James Bond...unfortunately they only had Get Smart dvds no merch :( I did get a Spy vs Spy shirt though which I love!!
So the rest of the day was just spent chillaxing at the cinemas and starbucks because it was just waay to wet to do the rest of my plans! But thats ok, even though AJ is going home soon, Casey will still be there and her family was nice enough to have me this (and I'm sure any other) weekend!!
Overall was a fun fun trip, D.C was not as great as I expected but was still good!
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