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Another wonderful day in the lovely city of Washington DC. Today Jess and I went to some slightly more fun museums. Our first of the day was the International Spy Museum included in our ticket was an interactive tour of the city of Kanar, which is a made up city that is currently undergoing civil war, and our group of spies (there were 4 of us) had to go under cover to find a nuclear detonator taken by a military group. It was good fun, although our group did not make many good decisions although our guide or 'senior officer' gave us lots of useful hints. The game took us about an hour to complete and then we went into the museum which exhibits many different spy stories and equipment There were actual stories of ex-spies on the gulf which was really interesting. Once we had completed the museum we then grabbed some lunch and headed to the new Newseum.
The Newseum is a museum about the media and gives a rather idealisd view of how amazing the media is and how important it is in the world. The museum is very well laid out and had exhibitions on the fall of the Berlin Wall, 9/11 and the history of the news. Throughout these exhibitions there many hands on games and buttons to push which kept us entertained. The museum also provides an amazing view of the Capitol building down Pennsylvania Avenue. Amusingly in the toilets there were funny quotes and errors that had been made in the written media. There was electronic copies of the days front pages from all fifty states and some international newspaper (including, rather amusingly, the Southend newspaper).
For dinner we had decided to meet up with my cousin, Sandra, for dinner in an area of DC called Georgetown. This is a beautiful part of town where most of the buildings are designed in the Victorian style which made it feel very like home. Jess and I walked down the main streets, which were full of shops and then met Sandra for dinner and a walk down to the waterfront. We ended up in a Pizza restaurant and then 3 ice creams stores for dessert...Jess and Sandra had frozen yogurt from the first store, and I went to Ben and Jerry's and Haagan Das for some small tasters including Haagan Daas coffee ice cream in memory of my father who would have loved to have had some! We then walked back to Jess's hotel and the apartment. On the way, we passed by a Chagall mural - that he done as a gift to the family he was staying with during the wall - unfortunately we could not see it as it was dark but I am sure it was beautiful. Tomorrow is New York which is my last city - I can't believe that I am nearly at the end the time as flown by!
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