Seeing as how we ran around like mad women at the theme parks I'm only going to give you the highlights edition. First up Universal and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Harry Potter looked just like you were walking onto a set. AMAZING! Hogsmead was brilliant. And the castle was awesome (if not a bit small :P). They had so much merchandise everywhere. They even had a Honeydukes, Dervish and Bangs and Olivanders. Olivanders looks exactly like the set in the mo...

Last day in D.C. What to do? Go to the zoo! The Smithsonian Zoo was just 10 minutes walk up the road and I decided I would head up for the morning and see if I had time to do anything else in the afternoon. First stop, Asian animals. It was quite cold outside (glove weather if mine weren't still drying out in the bedroom) and many of the animals were hiding were it was a lot warmer. But the Red Pandas were out and about running around and climbing trees. And the ...

The day that shall not be spoken of: Let's just say that American football is the most pointless game I have ever had to watch. Also I really don't like rain, being wet and being so cold my toes feel like they are so painful they might drop off. No more to be said aside from worst day of the trip so far and probably the whole time.

So today started off with a great stack of blueberry pancakes. We got to the International Spy Museum a little early and their spy cafe next door had a special on! After a great breakfast (but some very bad coffee) we headed into the Spy Museum to do the interactive spy mission. The trigger for a nuclear device had been stolen and it was up to us to find the trigger before someone set of a dirty bomb. Apparently it was based on actual CIA mission files (the mus...

So it was an early start today to get ourselves up to Capitol Hill for our guided tour at 9:20am. I forgot my gloves again...they were in my other jacket pocket. We headed through security and Siobhan got pulled up for having food in her bag and had to dump her good English lollies. We then headed into Emancipation Hall to meet up with our group and guide. First off our group was led into a theatre to watch an introduction story. If ever you wanted an example o...