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DAY 16
ok so getting up to catch the bus didnt quite go as planned. jen fell asleep at 10 and after i'd finished my laundry at 11 i fell asleep as well. jen never set and alarm and i kept snoozing mine. i eventually woke up at 20 past 2 and ur supposed to be at the station an hr b4 the bus i.e 2:45. i woke up jen we rushed around getting ready (dont think the new girl in the dorm appreciated it lol) hailed a cab and we got there only 15mins late. the bus ride was LONG!! only took about 4 hrs but i was tired it wasnt comfy seriously they do not make these seats for tall people! when we got to dc we went and caught a taxi to the pick up point of the tour we'd booked. the whole way the driver told us how we'd booked the wrong company and there were better ones for cheaper. i tried to explaiin we were only there for the day and this was the best tour for us but he wldnt listen so i just ignored him for the rest of the ride.
the pick up point was the old post office building which has now been converted to shopes, food courts and little boutiques. u had to go through airport type security to get in it was ridiculous!! everything is so over the top in the states! we grabbed a coffee and waited to leave. the tour group was mainly americans with some russians and then us. so of course everyone else knew the answers to all the guides questions about presidents, wars, american hostory etc and us scots looked like retards who knew nothing. not our fault we didnt take american history 101 at school! he actually started to get annoying making little digs at the english etc. jen tried to tell him that the scots werent part of great britain it confused him. i had to explain to him that certain scots dont like being associated with the english. didnt realise jen was one of them though.
so the tour was 6 hours of driving around every memorial, statue and fanous building it was AWESOME!!! DC is gorgeous, so much open land, water and greenery everyway its stunning! its so clean as well unlike NY theres no garbage on the roads or pavements. we got off the bus at all the major ones and the guide gave us its history and background etc which was really interesting. i did tend to zone out on some of it though lol. i loved the washington monument when i eventually manage to upoad pics u'll be able to tell lol theres a million of them from all different plaves. alot of the war memorials were really sad and quite impressive. we drove passed arlington cemertory but didnt go in. even driving passed though was sad, theres so many grave sites! we also went passed the pentagon again didnt stop there but we went round the side were the plane hit on 9/11 and u can see the difference in the colour of stone where they've rebuilt it. yup we did hit the white house. unfortuantely obama never invited us in for afternoon tea lol. its def quite an impressive sight!! we stopped off for lunch at a shopping mall and were told we had 50mins to look around and get lunch and NOT to shop! well u know i've never been one to do exactly wot am told lol. i needed a new usb my ones r all filled with pics and needed a new memory card for ma camera so we hit radia shack and a few tourist shops lol. the guide kinda just pointed at the bag and shook his head lol!
once the tour was finished we still had time to kill before the bus so we walked passed the FBI building and took a walk through a garden full of sculptures were we had a quick tea (one of the most expensive ever) then we decided we still ahd time to hit a smithsonian museum so we chose the one of natural history which was pretty cool. they had a massive ocean display. think jen was getting fed up with how long i was spending there lol. once we'd spent about an hour wandering round it was time to walk baack to the station. the walk was so pretty we ended up coming out the back of the museum which went onto the walkway bit between capitol hill and the wshinton monument. the sun was setting and i got some awesome (if i do say so myself) pics of the sun setting behind the monument!
the bus ride back was again uncomfy but didnt seem to drag as much. was so tired when we got back we quickly jumped online then hit the sack!
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