White House Visitors Center Washington DC

It sounds like the beginning of a very bad movie but in actuality is it the beginning of a trip of a lifetime...

I made a point of arriving in DC a few days before the Monday morning start of my program so that I could visit with a Korean family living next door in Virginia. This Korean family, the "Lee Family", holds a very special place …

Hey yall. Just a quick update of Washington as we are in Miami *****es and cant really be bothered writing too much. Too much beer to be consumed and swimming in the sun to be done.

Day 1

We arrived in Washington from our 4 ½ hour bus trip from NYC where we stayed in Manhattan the night before. Again a bloody heat wave! Record …

Took Metro Red line then switched to Green Line. Walked around the White House area then toward the Mall. Again since it was so hot and humid, we decided to stay indoor and take some time in the National Gallery of Art which had Joan Miro's exhibit on. Boys didn't even mind the 10-minutes video on the artist …

... in the Simpsons, so we made do with some pictures and headed on our way to the White House. When we arrived at the White House visitors centre we realised we had seriously miscalculated the amount of time we would need in the city, we marched down to the ...

... come back later in the day. We were lucky enough to get tickets for 10:30 so we just killed some time in the White House visitors centre until we were up. After waiting in a huge line and going through a security checkpoint (the first of many in DC) ...

... , and made the most of the afternoon by talking a stroll down National Mall and seeing the Washington Monument, the White House (and the White House visitors centre), the Lincoln Memorial, the World War 2 and Korean War memorial sites, and Tristan even ...

... Visitors Center by 7:30am so that we could fit as much as possible in before leaving for the airport. First stop: White House Visitors Center At the Visitor Center you'll find educational exhibits, an information desk and a gift shop. Our kids ...

... walk back to the bus we stopped at the outdoor Ice Rink and saw a squirrel (yep, more pics).  We called in to the White House Visitors Centre and let them know you guys all said g'day to Barrack.  You can't do walk up tours of the White House ...

... White House. As you could imagine security was everywhere around the lookout areas. I took a few photos, and then I walked into the White House visitors centre and then made my way down to a place called the mall. The mall is the area that runs from the ...

... of the White House are beautiful. I waited too late to get a Tour of the inside.... So we settled on the White House Visitors Center ....interesting.      We saw on the Food Network that no visit to DC is complete without eating ...

... easier than the New York subway – only a couple of train lines!!!) to the Penn Quarter area to visit the White House Visitors Centre. On the way we stopped at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Centre for morning tea.  We had to go through ...