Capitol Hill Washington DC

Washington DC , District of Columbia, United States

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    Washington DC-day 3

    I arrived in Washington DC this morning after a three and a half hour train journey from New York. As soon as I arrived I dropped my bags of at the The Jefferson Hotel and headed straight to the Washington DC monument, it is the world's tallest stone structure, standing at 169.294m. It shaped like an egyptian style obelisk. The statue was built in …

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    Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill Club, Lectures, Gala!

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    I was up at the crack of dawn, I had to shower, dress and take a taxi over to the Omni Shoreham and arrived by 7:00 am where our group was then taken by charter bus over to Capitol Hill. Our group of around 230 made our way to the South entrance of the Capitol and into the Legislative briefing which consisted of a barrage of Congressmen and women …

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    Museum en Memorial Dag

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    Vandaag een drukke dag. We staan op tijd op omdat we, ook al vooraf in Nederland, een tour door het Capitool geboekt hebben. Weer met de taxi er naar toe, wat gaat dat snel. Het weer is mooi, zonnig en warm dus blauwe lucht, altijd leuk voor foto's. De tour valt iets tegen, je ziet maar een paar zalen en de gids praat amerikaans op een frans tempo …

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    Last day in DC and the Fausts

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    We managed to cram quite a bit into our short time here in DC. We were down to our last few items to clean off our list.

    We left around 9:45 to head over to the National Archives. As I mentioned, we just watched National Treasure (which the kids loved), so they were primed to see the Declaration of Independence, and hopefully the treasure …

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    the trip begin

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    arrive in Washington first surprise at 7pm there is a bus every hour only from the airport : Seriously ?
    I mean it is a big city I expected a bus at least every 20 minutes but ..... welcome to USA

    Despite the ****** weather and a silly bus system DC is a nice city people are really friendly especially bus driver i missed my stop and …

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    WDC - Thank you Police!

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    We got up at 7 a.m. packed our bags, had a cup of coffee in the balcony and headed for the bus station. We said goodbye to the busy streets of NY and headed for Washington. The trip took 4 hours so we used this time for catching g up on editing pictures and writing the blog.

    We got to the station at around 2 o'clock so we had 4 hours of …

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    Washington Wonderland

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    ... huge International spy museum which was pretty busy and we had to pretend to be various undercover agents.  Then onto Union Station, Capitol Hill all very empty and eery.  Really wished we could get access to the tv series West Wing to complete ...

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    There will be no Whitewash at the Whitehouse

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    ... yards to our hotel which was very swanky and I thanked my lucky stars for not dorm'ing it. The hotel itself was brillint, overlooking Capitol Hill and had a rack rate of $200 - about 150 pounds so were quite please to be just spending $60 (40pound). I ...

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    What a day!

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    ... so that was a relief. We got to the hostel finally and went straight out to do some sight seeing. We went to Capitol hill, where the Congress Library, Supreme Court and Capitol building are. We then walked down The Mall to Washington Monument - a ...

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    If Mr. Smith Can Go...So can we!

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    ... know what I am talking about.  In a nutshell, the South’s General Robert Lee gambled on a push beyond Washington into tight northern territory.  He was on a roll after campaigns in Manassas and Charlottesville and Anteidem…why stop ...

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    Washington DC

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    28/04/05 Arrived in Washington DC after a 4 and half hour coach journey. The hostel we had was gross, dirty bathroom and stuff, but nevermind! We made the most of visiting all the sites... The White House, - George Bush was even here today as there ...

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    Presidential Washington

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    ... one of the most powerful cities in the world. We waited till 9.30am to set off because it's quite expensive to travel around Washington DC, a $9 travel card and we were set. We headed out to the Pentagon first and as you would expect we weren’t ...

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    Off to meet Obama!

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    ... had to check out of that room, but then was told we couldnt check back into our other room till 2pm!! Not a great start to Washington DC!! Anyway, once we were dressed and showered we then took a walk down to the White House, which I had expected to be ...

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    Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill Club, Lectures, Gala!

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    ... take a taxi over to the Omni Shoreham and arrived by 7:00 am where our group was then taken by charter bus over to Capitol Hill. Our group of around 230 made our way to the South entrance of the Capitol and into the Legislative briefing which consisted ...

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    Washington DC

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    ... the monuments today, saw the White House (from a distance, you're not allowed to get anywhere near it since 9/11), Capitol Hill, the Washington Monument and some of the War Memorials.  Also went to the Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian where ...

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    The US Capital

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    ... the grounds, amazed at the number of men and women represented, and took a detour to visit John F Kennedy's memorial and eternal flame. Capitol Hill was the last stop of the day before walking back by the northern (rear) side of the White House to ge a ...