To take a break from setting up our flat (which is lovely), we headed into Washington DC yesterday. We took the Metro in, and were really pleased to find that we are only 30 minutes out of town by the underground - and that our local station is only 5 minutes drive away.
The first thing we saw after getting off the Tube (Metro?) was the Washington Monument, a total Washington tourist destination:
We also had headed into Washington to see the Cherry Blossom Festival (http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/), a yearly event celebrating the 3000-odd Cherry Tree's given to Washington by Tokyo in the early 20th Century. The Cherry Blossoms are really pretty - we missed the majority of the bloom, as it was the last day of the Festival - but they are still cool things to see. We also stumbled across a 10 mile run through the city they do every year; a good thing for next year I feel....
Then on to more Touristy Stuff:
And I found the Capitol Building (like Parliament, but bigger). In fact, this seems a theme of DC - the Federal Buildings are all massive. All of them have at multiple flights of steps up to them, and I saw some with doors build either for Giants or five people on each others shoulders.
Much more to see in Washington, but we got tired and headed home. Had kebobs for dinner (like kebabs, but spelt different).
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