We woke up this morning and hung around the campsite doing nothing very exciting, except of course feeding the ducks in the pond!! Ronan found this very enjoyable. Especially being chased by the ducks.. you'd swear he was a six year old. After lunchtime we packed up, battened down the hatches and made our way south towards the capital, Washington DC.
It took us just over 2 hours to get here and we parked up in the campsite in the early evening. We decided that seeing as we had a few hours of daylight left we might as well go into the city for a wee stroll around. We took a bus directly from the campsite to the metro station and then took the train straight into the heart of DC. Our first impression of DC was... wow!! This place is much cooler than New York. We walked up the street and passed the J. Edgar Hoover building which is home of the FBI headquarters. One of the guards
behind the reception desk was good enough to stick his arms out and pose for a photograph... You can see him at the centre of the revolving door. I guess the FBI have a sense of humour too. We continued walking until we came to the Washington memorial. It's much bigger and much more spectacular in real life than it is in the movies. The view from the Lincoln memorial looking down over the reflecting pool, and with the Washington memorial in the background was really amazing. Most people will remember this view from the movie Forrest Gump when he's making his speech at the peace rally. The sun was starting to go down and we made or way back towards the metro station. We'll go back tomorrow for a full day exploring the city. On our way back over we were walking near The White House and we heard a low flying helicopter just over our heads. It turned out to be not just one, but three military helicopters. The first one passed over The White House, the second one came down to land on the front lawn and the third one passed over as well. I spoke to a guard on one of the gates and it turns out that it was indeed our Mr Bush coming home for his tea in the second helicopter. The other two were his escorts. I hope Mrs Bush had something nice ready for him. When we got back to camp we made a bit of dinner ourselves, lit a nice big campfire and sat around with a few beers listening to the wonderful sounds of the interstate.
We woke up this morning and hung around the campsite doing nothing very exciting, except of course feeding the ducks in the pond!! Ronan found this very enjoyable. Especially being chased by the ducks.. you'd swear he was a six year old. After lunchtime we packed up, battened down the hatches and made our way south towards the capital, Washington DC.
It took us just over 2 hours to get here and we parked up in the campsite in the early evening. We decided that seeing as we had a few hours of daylight left we might as well go into the city for a wee stroll around. We took a bus directly from the campsite to the metro station and then took the train straight into the heart of DC. Our first impression of DC was... wow!! This place is much cooler than New York. We walked up the street and passed the J. Edgar Hoover building which is home of the FBI headquarters. One of the guards
behind the reception desk was good enough to stick his arms out and pose for a photograph... You can see him at the centre of the revolving door. I guess the FBI have a sense of humour too. We continued walking until we came to the Washington memorial. It's much bigger and much more spectacular in real life than it is in the movies. The view from the Lincoln memorial looking down over the reflecting pool, and with the Washington memorial in the background was really amazing. Most people will remember this view from the movie Forrest Gump when he's making his speech at the peace rally. The sun was starting to go down and we made or way back towards the metro station. We'll go back tomorrow for a full day exploring the city. On our way back over we were walking near The White House and we heard a low flying helicopter just over our heads. It turned out to be not just one, but three military helicopters. The first one passed over The White House, the second one came down to land on the front lawn and the third one passed over as well. I spoke to a guard on one of the gates and it turns out that it was indeed our Mr Bush coming home for his tea in the second helicopter. The other two were his escorts. I hope Mrs Bush had something nice ready for him. When we got back to camp we made a bit of dinner ourselves, lit a nice big campfire and sat around with a few beers listening to the wonderful sounds of the interstate.
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