Washington Hilton Towers

... they would be more strict here than LA but apparently not). Jumped in a taxi and got taken to my glorious hotel, the Hilton Washington Towers. Apparently George Bush has a suite here - no doubt it isn't as nice as mine, which is just lurvely... My room ...

... in the north of England). There was a very large branch of Macy's here, housed in Heschs - the original department store in Washington. I popped in - well, it would have been rude not to - and made a small purchase. Not much else around here was open ...

... not to walk over to the Lincoln Memorial. I turned back round and headed along E Street past the Willard (the oldest hotel in Washington) and Freedom Plaza. The stones on the floor of this plaza are laid out so it looks identical to the Mall. I stopped ...

... , I kept wandering to see if I could get a flight with another airline, as it was looking very likely I would be stuck in Washington for at least another 24 hours. In the end sneakiness prevailed. I had been chatting with a young American guy in front of ...

Today was the first full day at the conference. I got up at 8am as seems usual (if only I had this luxury back home) and went and had my usual breakfast. I really am getting addicted to those croissants, and had to sneak out an extra one to take down to ...

For some inexplicable reason I woke up at 5am this morning - I was not impressed to say the least. Fortunately it was not a full wake-up so I was able to return to sleep for another 3 hours. I got up a bit earlier today as I needed to set the stand up, ...

... getting progressively hotter in my suit and my feet were beginning to hurt again, but I thought I would continue up to the Washington Monument as I was so close. Some tourists stopped to ask me for directions - well, they pointed at the Lincoln Memorial ...

... designed specifically on the Potomac River as America's all important heart and brain together. And the the incomparable George Washington - a symbol of strength himself, as it's visionary. The likeness of DC's appearance to ancient Rome is uncanny. ...

... decided to take it easy, so to speak, and build our summer vacation around a conference Bernie and Cara wanted to attend in Washington, DC. Washington is one of our favorite cities in the whole world, and a city that we've wanted to return to, so we took ...

... , but so far our trip has been very busy. Our journey to Europe began on Thursday (3/31)with a 10 hour flight from Washington DC to Moscow on a Boeing 767, which is basically the younger brother of a properly sized international plane. Every other ...

... . We also visited the WWII memorial which was a designed by the same guy who designed the Iwo Jima memorial in Washington DC and was very similar in appearance. In fact, many Malaysians complained when it was first built that the soldiers ...

... we were now very late... So we made it to the airport and got in line. I was heading to San Francisco, I thought via Washington DC, and Paul was heading to Vancouver via somewhere... we both looked at our itineraries (I'd booked them online in a hurry) - ...

... was also a statue of Anonymous that looked somewhat like a Death Eater, and the first statue of George Washington in Europe, which was paid for by Hungarian-American groups in the States right around the time my family had just moved ...