Springtime Visit to DC

In April we took a 5 hour road trip North to pay Washington DC a visit, and well worth the visit it was too. What a beautiful and interesting city. So totally different to any other I have visited in the States.

We arrived on the Thursday before Easter and spent the rest of the day and much of Friday morning orientating ourselves and working out where and what we were going to go and see - easy peasy right? Not quite. From here on in our visit was hampered by security alerts which meant NO ENTRY into the Capitol Building, Library of Congress or the Supreme Court despite two attempts, a heatwave, half the nation deciding to flock to the capital to see the stunning Japanese Cherry Blossoms, the sheer volume of queues to visit the National Museums and even the time it took to get a decent meal. When I say that in terms of the sheer number of people in Washington DC that weekend The Mall resembled Marina Beach on a Sunday, and the Museums Sathyam Multiplex any night of the week, some of you will catch my drift. Overcrowded and unsafe. Especially with little ones, one of whom is anti-handholding and anti-pushchair/stroller!

By Saturday evening hot, tired and all with aching feet we decided to call it quits and go home to de-stress and have a quiet Easter Sunday. Hopefully we will return again at a less busy time of year to see all that we missed. And miss things we did because the mayhem was such that the sightseeing buses were jampacked and even if the four of us could have got on one, the traffic was seriously gridlocked! Another time...fingers crossed.
Here are some pics of our trip.

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