Topic: Washington D.C. / NYC

*I'm just going to write random thoughts about my fun trip to Washington D.C. and NYC :)

Day 1: early at airport, little kid complaining on the plane (I want games!! .. I want soda!!), sitting on plane waiting to take off in Dallas for an hour (not fun), finally getting to D.C., eating Five Guys (great stuff), walking to Adam Morgan area, lots of bars, two fruit beers (yummy!) at the Reef.


Day 2: went to the Mall area, Smithsonian Institution Building, the Castle, tried to get Cure tickets but failed, back to the Mall to walk around more, saw a protest in front of Capital for Falun Gong, Congressional tour by our Congressman Adam Schiff's staff, laughing at our national debt (yea cause we can pay that off), starting to realize Andrew Jackson is hot, went to Georgetown (like Old Town Pasadena but with a river), it started raining, went to see the monuments at night.





Day 3: Arlington National Cemetery, JFK's grave, Robert E. Lee's house, many graves, changing of the guards, went to Chinatown for Five Guys, National Portrait Gallery (one of the highlights of my trip), Ford's Theatre where Lincoln was shot, went to a National game (it was actually a decent turn out), watched the racing of the presidents - apparently they don't let Teddy Roosevelt ever win, went to Chinatown for some drinking at RFD Washington that has over 300 beers, I had four beers and a good buzz :)



Day 4: got up early to try to catch cheap bus to NYC but no luck so went with Greyhound, arrived in NYC 4 hours later, very nice Sherton hotel right in the middle of Manhattan, walked around Central Park (very nice), counted how many people were reading the new Harry Potter book, went to Times Square (eh), went to Toys R' Us, went to Serendipity 3 and sat at the movie table, met up with my cousin and friends to drink in East Village, took a cab back (interesting), got to see how NYC parties at night.