The Capital...WASHINGTON DC

Hellooouuuuu :D

How are you all? Because I am absolutely great :D
I ahd an awesome day in Washington DC, but now I am tired and also kinda sad, because in a few hours we're all gonna leave to the airport.

We just had two days in Washington, and they went by way too fast. Yesterday, we arrived after a 5 hours drive from New York. We were all really exhausted, but we didn't get a break. As soon as we arrived, we went to the Capitol building, where we had a tour and we also went to see the library. After the Capitol tour, which was actually really boring, we went shortly to the Supreme Court, but only from the outside.
Since there were a lot of people looking for souvenirs, we went to a souvenir shop, where we even got 20% on everything, except food. Then we were headed fo dinner, at the Union Station, a really beautiful, and also old building. We got, like on the first, a voucher, so we didn't had to pay for it.

Time for Memorials! But the traffic was really bad, so it took us a while, and we had to cut off on of them. We went to the Vietnam War Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial and at the end to the Korean War Memorial. It was really interesting, but also kinda sad to see all these names of people, who died in those two wars.
That was the end of our day, so we just went to the hotel, where we shortly checked in and then went to bed.

Next morning we got up early, and left soon after the breakfast. We went to the Arlington Cemetery. It is a HUGE!! cemetery outside of Washington with more than 300'000 burried military people. You probably saw that cemetery in movies before. We also watched the guard changing ceremony, which was performed in absolute accuracy and no mistake. It was pretty impressive. Then just before we left the cemetery, we went to John F. Kennedy's grave and the one of his two brothers.
We also went to see the Iwo Jima Memorial, where you have 6 soldiers pulling up a flag. You have seen that one before too, I guess.

For lunch we went to a building, of which I forgot the name. I just know that we had to go to security. and the my lunch was really good. But anyway, we went straight to the White House, after everybody was full. We went to just one side of the White House, the one where you can go closer to it. On that street, which is blocked for cars, is a protest, going on for 30 years. There was also, just today, a little kid with his father protesting about the Unchristianity the Obama brings to the USA and that homosexuality and abortion. It was actually rather said, because this kid was just about 9 or 10 years old, and he was yelling about all that stuff. I guess, he wasn't even aware, what exactly he was protesting against, but nevertheless he was doing it.

The next thing was the National Mall, the park around most of the Smithonian Museums in Washington DC. We had free time, to go to which ever museums we wanted. So we went to see the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights and as well the Natural History Museum, where they have hte Hope Diamond.

In this free time Fabiola and me somehow managed to get our grandparents and Mary Ellen to the National Mall, so we could meet with them. It wa soo AWESOME :DD
It was just so cool, to see my grandparents after 8 months again, and then also Mary Ellen, who I saw last, when I was 2 and a half years old... So it was like really really great!

Then the last dinner of that trip we had at the Hard Rock Café in Washigton, it was tasty and a lot of fun, but also sad, because it was the last dinner :'(
But anyways, after dinner we went to see the last two memorials, the World War 2 Memorial and the Jefferson Memorial. They were also really nice, especially the World War 2, it is beautiful.

On the way back we had the last 2 national anthem, so we heard quite some during the trip, because every evening on the way back to the hotel, some people went in front and sung there national anthem. It was cool, and also interesting to hear all those different languages and songs.

Now we are all in some hotelrooms, waiting to leave. I don't think that there are a lot of people asleep, but there are surely some who fell asleep. We'll see who fell asleep and who not at 3 in the morning, when the first of 2 buses leaves.

If you want to see some pictures, just check out my facebook profile, I have them all on there.