Down to DC

This weekends trip was to the nations Capital City - Washington DC. From what we had heard and read, we werent expecting much and werent overly excited about the trip (had heard a lot about real seedy areas in the city and some hotel receptionists sit behind bullet proof glass shields!). It took us 6 hours to get there and we arrived about 8pm. When we drove through the city we were surprised at how beautiful the city was, especially the architecture.

Saturday was a very busy day with lots of walking.

First of all we walked to Union Statio Plaza (train station) and had a look throught the building - it was beautiful.

Inside Union Station

Next we walked to the Capitol Building, or Parliament House. We walked around it, but decided not to go through there as the wait was over an hour plus we couldnt take our back pack inside with us (it was too big) and we had food and water in our bag whcih we couldnt take either, and of course there was no where to leave your bag!

Ryan 'tweaking' the Capitol

Since we were near the botanic gardens, we thought we would do a quick walk through. Ryan loved it because the humidity in there was high and the over past 5 weeks we have no humidity, just really dry conditions which has freaked our skin out.



We then had a look at the world's largest library, then on to the Supreme Court. the Supreme Court was a really nice old building and it is so big!

One of three library buildings

Ryan in front of the Supreme Court

Kristy next to one of the columns out the front of the Supreme Court

From here we walked to some local markets and had a browse before heading back to Chinatown for lunch. We had more wontons (fried this time!), noodles and chicken.

After a quick shower back at the hotel, we attempted to find a bar near the basketball stadium (before the game), and had no such luck, but managed to purchase some bevvies from a Thai restaurant.


The game was awesome - Washington Wizards V New York Knicks. The Knicks won the game literally at the very last second of the game.

Washington Wizards V New York Knicks

At half time (and after a few more drinks) I (Kristy) decided i needed to go to the bathroom. I was sitting there, doing my thing, when all of a sudden, the lady in the cubicle next to me head rolled under the divider and into my cubicle. I was freaking out, quickly finished and was yelling out 'Hey! What are you doing?' Outside the cubicle i could hear another girl yelling out - 'are you ok?' I ran out to see the lady in the cubicle next to me had passed out and rolled in to mine!!! I just thought it was someone trying have a little looky at me doing my business, but she had fainted! Was very funny.

After the game we tried to find a gentlemans club for Ryan to attend, but had no such luck, so had to settle for a bar instead.