washington day 2

First of all we parked in the same park as yesterday, down by the river - it was a gorgeous clear day but freezing cold. Dad likes down by the river because its free. Then we were on our way to the white house!!! On the way there we past the Washington monument again, me Amy and Emma were lagging behind. Dad stopped and asked if we wanted to go up the monument for another look as the view wasn't that flash yesterday... so off we went.

It was so much better than yesterday because everything was clear and you could see for miles! We saw heaps more than we did when it was cloudy. Next was the famous WHITE HOUSE. The visitors centre was cool we did some colouring, while mum and dad watched a video about the history and also showing the inside. We then walked over to the White House! Did you know America has had 44 presidents, starting at Washington all the way to Obama. It looks so much cooler than the pictures its so big, we only saw the front, but that was sure enough to impress us. I truly enjoyed it. On the way out we saw a Christmas tree with a heap of toy train models underneath, they were so cool, we threw a penny on it! I missed but that’s OK!

After all that we walked over to the Natural history museum. In the museum were dinosaur bones!!! They were real bones - it was so cool, there was even a T-Rex skeletons and a Triceratops, and a one of a kind Diceratops (thats us with the photo of it)! We learnt all about mammals, fish, insects, reptiles and amphibians! There were loads of stuffed animals (including our Dad is seems), about a million different rocks, and also some amazing gems including the hope diamond.

On the way back, we all got to feed a couple of squirrels. I held my hand out with the bread in it while he ate it. Amy wanted a go so I pulled the bread away. Now let me tell you the squirrel did not like that it attacked me - luckily not fatal, just a scratched finger.

We walked to the Capitol no one was allowed to go up so we observed from down below. The Capitol is one of the oldest building in Washington and really spectacular - the statues out front were cool, Dad really likes one with a bunch of horses pulling an old cannon. We were there just at sunset & you could see all the way back to the monument.

By then we had done quite enough walking and it was more than 2 miles back to our RV... so we caught a taxi. On our way back to our usual parking spot we hunted around for some wifi to so blogs and e-mails... another day done... goodnight everyone from Deanna.