The White House

The White House…

Thursday the 18^th of August, we woke up early got organised and checked out of our hotel we walked to port authority and got on the Peter Pan bus at 8am to Washington D.C, very tightly crammed bus but there was free wifi so I wasn’t complaining, we got to D.C about 12.30pm we then went on a mission to get to our hotel, we walked down the street two blocks with all our luggage to the train station we stood staring at the map for about 10mins until we asked for help, only  cost $1.85 and one transfer and we made it to Foggy Bottom, two blocks away was our hotel the River Inn which was amazing! Kitchen, so much space, best shower ever! We were so hot and tired by the time we got to the hotel from lugging our luggage around we had to rest for a bit.

Then it was time to get walking yet again, we headed down to the waterfront and walked along the river to the Lincoln Memorial, what a huge building just for a statue but it was amazing, from the Lincoln memorial you look out over the reflecting pools, except they were all dug up which was kind of disappointing but it was still a good view. We then walked along to the World War 2 memorial and then up to the Washington Monument.

Every chance we got we took a rest it was so so hot and we had done a lot of walking, we couldn’t wait to get into an air conned museum, first stop was the Natural History Museum which was really cool, they even had the bones of a New Zealand Moa!

I really wanted to go into the Smithsonian Castle because I thought there was something exciting in there but turns out it’s a really cool building but it’s just and Info centre. We then went to the Air and Space museum which was fun. But we missed the National Museum of Art it was closed when we got there. After all the Museums we headed to the White House, at this point it started to rain and thunder and lightning, but we toughed it out and we waved to Barack and Michelle and had our photo, we then walked back down to our hotel, found a supermarket and got some food for dinner, the boys made us Nachos, we had a couple of drinks at the hotel then we wandered down the road to Georgetown which kind of reminds me of Parnell or Ponsonby.

Friday, Rach and I woke up and headed back down to Georgetown to go to Georgetown Cupcakes, they have a TV show on the food channel called DC cupcakes so we had to try them I got a lava fudge cupcake it was delish, we then headed back to the hotel to pack up and got back on the train to the bus station and here we are free wifi on the bus best invention ever! Back to NYC talk soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxx