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Travel Blogs from Washington DC
Kids + Museums = when can we go home?
TV advertising here is quite a shock to the system - comparative advertising is popular so you see ads like " I take Nightquil but my nose is still stuffy....That's because nightquil does not have an anti-histamine in it, try Alca-salzer it's much better" or "The chev has xyz - you wont find that in any Mercedes Benz"...Below is one of our favourite ads so far....
The political ads are ...
Getting Owned By The Locals
... guys have a good day.” We looked at our watches and decided that it was time for ultimate Frisbee, so we head over to the Mall and challenged some of the locals to a game. We got beaten very badly; 1-9 actually, but we had a lot of fun. Tomorrow we have to leave and flight out to Korea to see some Korean Culture and learn more about the bills that President Truman passed as president. -Kyle Fathauer
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DC is TC
... getting up sometime in the afternoon I only had one thing left to do, visit Captial Hill. I don't know if it was because I was tired or because it started to rain, I think I just wanted and excuse to do nothing nothing for a change, but I ended up getting around half way there before turning back and spending the rest of the day reading and getting up to date with travel plans and organisation.
I gathered a team together to go out on the last day of the weekend.
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Capitol City : the tour begins
... and science, to name only a few. The air and space museum was filled with, surprisingly enough, places and space craft. More planes than I've ever seen before in my life. There were some interesting exhibits, particularly for me the space stuff, but at the end of the day, there are only so many different types of planes you can look at before you start to go a bit stir-crazy. So we left and headed to the Old Post Office pavilion for some arial views of the city, and ...
Last days Washington
... building. On the way back Cam got off earlier than me and took in another couple of art galleries but I came back and promptly fell asleep!! I don't quite have the stamina a tourist needs, but hopefully now I will have the energy to go out tonight. We have absolutely loved Washington and would easily come back for more there is just so much to do and see, the history is rich and people extremely friendly and helpful. Of to Dickinson tomorrow for a few days, should be ...