Washington

We arrived in Washington on the red eye at 6am, and it was cold and raining. I know we weren’t very complimentary about LA, but the weather at least was better there than in Washington that morning. We made our way to the hotel where we met up with Les and Eileen (Colin’s parents) who were themselves coming to the end of an American trip. After catching up and getting some much needed Maltesers, Kelly arrived and we all went out to explore the nation’s capital. The weather had cleared up a bit and we decided to get a hop on hop off trolley bus to see the numerous sights of the City. We started the tour at Union station, this was the first of many beautiful historic structures that we would see. Although there was the option to hop off, we were quite sleepy so did the whole loop back to the station where we left the rest of the Greener’s and headed back to the hotel for a snooze. When we awoke it was evening so we went for dinner in a really nice steakhouse.
The next day we felt a lot more awake so explored much more of the city. We went to Arlington cemetery in the morning, saw the changing of the guard at the tomb of the unknown soldier and the Kennedy’s grave site. We also went to the Lincoln, Korean, WW2 and Vietnam memorials. After a long lunch we got back on the Trolley bus and did a different loop through Washington, seeing sites such as the Cathedral, weirdly only finished in 1993, the front of the White House and Embassy Row. That evening we went downtown....down to Chinatown for dinner and drinks with Kelly.
The next day we started at the Jefferson and FDR memorials, then headed towards the White House and finally Capitol Hill. That evening we had Mexican at a bar on the Potomac River, we had tried to get in the night before, but it was absolutely packed. It seems like everyone left Washington at the weekend, so the bar was quieter on the Friday, but still had a good atmosphere.
On our last morning we didn’t have much time to see more sights, but had seen everything we really wanted to, so after a lazy start we took the train to New York.