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Ria's Travels around USA!!!
Hay everyone....
I've not been on the toilet all this time...just got carried away with other things...sorry :-)
Anyway...where was I....
Washington is absolutely beautiful. There are so many beautiful buildings here with so much meaning, really nice and chilled out vibe here as well. I can't get my head round the fact that this is the capital and it is so quiet. Honestly...you'll see from the pics...
So on Saturday I went on this walking tour of DC, it was really good. It lasted four hours so I was battered by the end of it but I was well worth it. We seen the
- White house (The camera really does add inches because it's tiny in person)
- WW2 memorial which was really beautiful
- Thomas Jefferson Memorial
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Korean War Veterans Memorial
- Lincoln Memorial
- Washington Monument
- Where Martin Luther King said his 'I have a dream' speech :-)
- This was also where Forest Gump said his speech, hehehe
So you can imagine how much walking that is.... Try and get on the net and check some of these places out, there absolutely beautiful. I'll try n get my pics on here as soon as I can, but in the mean time its worth having a look....
At the end of the tour I lost the group (was doing a good deed and taking pictures of this family :-) opps!!!) so I was randomly walking around looking for somewhere to eat cus I was wasting away n I bumped into this girl called Farah, she was this really nice American girl, she must of sensed my distress cus she invited me for dinner with her and her boyfriend. That was really nice, first time I've had a proper laugh with people my own age since I've been here, we went to an arcade after n just spent the afternoon larking around....(Am glad I got lost now.......)
Then I had to moved hostels so I trekked half was across Washington n ended up in this really grotty looking hostel, but inside it was really nice so it wasn't to bad. There was a really good bunch of people here so it was nice to chill out n watch tele :-)
Yesterday was another sight seeing day. I went to
- The Pentagon
- The Capitol
- The Supreme Court
- Air and space museum (very boring...sorry mum)
- Botanical gardens - very pretty
- US navy memorial
So another packed day really. There's a lot of free museums n stuff in Washington so it's a great place to go if you're skint. Or stingy like me :-)
When I got back some guys here invited me to have some of their dinner with them, was quiet nice actually, I haven't got food poisoning so am happy. We all ended up going to a bar after that was really kewl. It was this little jazz bar n they were playing live music, it was so nice to have an alcoholic beverage or 2....... :-) hehehe.
So that really brings you right up to date. Am off to Orlando this evening which am so excited about. I'll let you know how it is as soon as I find somewhere to log on.
Well everyone, love u all lots, and miss u all 2
Take care and speak soon
Mwah Mwah Mwah
xxxx
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