Washington Day 3

Looked out the window and to our dismay saw that it was raining – not too hard but enough to get wet.  Checked the map and then headed out for a 1.8km walk down to the Vietnam War Memorial.  Quite interesting how they have done this, with a laminated book in alphabetical order of all the people who died with the column and row where there name is listed on the wall. 

Wandered around through the park and headed on up towards the White House where we found a restaurant called Cosi where we had breakfast – both had an Italian sausage bolognaise wrap and Dereck had coffee and I had a hazelnut hot chocolate.  

Then took a walk to the Natural History Museum.  This was very interesting and if you saw the movie Night at the Museum 2, this is where it was filmed.  We had lunch here – both hot dogs but Dereck’s plain and mine with cheese, onion and chilli (which was mince).  From here we walked down the road to the American History Museum.  I don’t particularly like history, but found this to be a very interesting place.  From there our plan was to catch the bus to the Arlington Cemetary, but the bus took over an hour to get to us and if we had gone there would not have been another bus to get us back to our hotel, so we just ended up going for a ride on the bus past all the places we had seen yesterday.  Still very interesting and this time we managed to see the South African Embassy.  Got off at the stop near our hotel and had a nice walk back to our hotel, but not before stopping off at Starbucks to have a coffee and me my favourite hazelnut hot chocolate – very yummy.  Freshened up and a bit later took a walk back to the Elephant and Castle for supper.  Dereck had a burger and I had a Thai chicken salad.  Walked back to our hotel passing lots of very enthusiastic baseball fans as the Washington Redskins were playing against the Dallas Cowboys.  Watched a bit of football once we got back to our hotel.

World War II Memorial

Washington Cathedral, Union Station & Chinatown