Washington DC

The White House

So the penultimate city.  We stayed in DC for 5 days and spent most of our time in museums.  There are the Smithsonian Museums which are all free to get in and a lot of fun.  We went to the air and space museum followed by the natural history museum then the next day the holocaust museum and the National Geographic museum.  I especially liked seeing the Hope diamond on display in the Natural History Museum, it's beautiful and for the time being is set in an amazing necklace with lots of other diamonds.  I still prefer my engagement ring though!

The Washington Monument in front of the WWII memorial

  

We toured most of the sights and monuments over the 5 days.  Tim was very miffed as they have dug up the reflecting pool (one of the most iconic sights in Washington!) and are currently re-doing it.  Most of the monuments have rangers with them who give little guide talks so you learn a bit about them too- good for me who knows nothing about American history!  

With our mate Abe

There isn't much more I can say about Washington  really, it was mostly museums and monuments for us.  We had the luxury of a kitchen in our hotel room so had home cooked meals for the whole time- after living off fast food and microwave meals for a while that was a real treat!  We caught the bus up to NYC on Saturday ready for the last leg of our journey...

Washington from the Tidal Basin- the Jefferson Monument is on the right.