This was our last day in DC and I was pretty bummed that we had to go home already. It was a big day though, we had a tour of the White House!
On our way to our tour, we stopped by the Washington Monument and picked up tickets to go to the top again and then headed back to the White House. We got there early but decided to check in anyways. Good thing too, because everyone else had the same idea. I got checked in just fine and so did Rich, but Adam's name somehow got left off of their list so we had to wait a really long time before they would ever let him through. Overall the tour was pretty disappointing. They had all of the carpets rolled up and the furniture pushed out of the way so that people could walk through. You really couldn't get much of an idea of the house because everything was out of place. We were only allowed to see maybe five rooms, two of which we couldn't even go in to because they were roped off. One of those was the east room where they hold press conferences and they were setting up for one in a few hours. The second room was just roped off because...? We were able to walk through the state dining room and that was pretty neat. Really long and had a big table at it so lots of people can all eat there together. Then we were walked outside and the tour was over. For all of the hassle we went through to get tickets for the tour and then waiting and then Adam almost didn't even get to come inside...it wasn't worth it and probably wouldn't recommend it to anyone in the future. At least we can say that we have been in the White House.
We headed back to the Washington Monument and went back up to the top. We could see a lot better today than the last time. It was just fun to see the whole city (and then some) from way up high again. After some time there we came back down and headed over to see the Korean War Memorial in the day time. Then we walked over to the Vietnam War Memorial and we were glad to see people being a little more respectful this time. The first name on the wall was John H. Anderson Jr. (1959) and the last name on the wall was Jessie C. Alba (1975) and all of the names are listed in the order of their death.
It was time to head back to the Bed and Breakfast and pick up our bags and go to the airport and head home. Adam was able to get on an earlier flight to Chicago with hopes that he could get on the same flight as us from there to Seattle.
We were just flying in to Chicago when a lightning storm began. We landed and met back up with Adam and waited for our next flight. The storm started getting pretty bad and we almost didn't have a flight back home. Luckily we were able to board and Adam got the last seat on the plane! The storm really caused problems though and shut a lot of things down so we ended up taking off an hour and a half after schedule. We got back in to Seattle pretty late (really only 10:45, but that's like 1:45am back east) and actually took a taxi back to Adam's place. Funny that the whole time we were on the east coast where taxis are everywhere, we never took one until we got home.
2 comments:
Love that you could go on this big adventure,makes me want to go!
Thank you for finishing your trip here. I saw the Titanic exhibit when I was in Vegas for a convention. It was at the Luxor. They also gave each person a card that had the name and info of a person that was on the Titanic. At the end of the tour, you faced a wall with the names of survivors and the dead. You were to find the name to see with category it was in. Mine survived. Thanks again for posting. Good to hear from you. Don't wait so long next time. Like to know what you're "up to".
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