Okay,back up…DC…
Okay, so I got ahead of myself – isn’t that shocking? And I apologize in advance for bad grammar – this keyboard sucks…
So, I can’t really remember where I left off – oh well, we made it to DC…drove to this cute little area called Adams Morgan NW of “the mall”…only to find out that isn’t where we’re going to be staying. Apparently they had a fire a few months back and were rebuilding so we were supposed to be contacted to let us know where the new place was and, well, you know how that goes…so the place is called the Washington International Student Centre and we actually stayed in an area called Columbia Heights which was around a mile East of where we thought we were staying. We stayed in a 6-bed dorm since, well, we’re on a budget and DC is not the cheapest place…the only thing I wish about places like this is they should post etiquette – plastic bags rustling and lights on at 2 am are just not cool! But, that’s not the hostels problem – I mean, we knew what we were getting into and the hostel workers were pretty cool…
So we did the usual thing – walked the memorials, got rained on and thank goodness for the warm clothes – random, not so common things – went to the building museum, went to this Scottish Rite Freemason deal (we were randomly wandering towards the monument area and saw this cool building that had Egyptian statues in front of it) – you know, the movie National Treasures? Kind of interesting…it’s kind of funny, I’ve always been interested in the Templars and all that from the da Vinci code stuff – but I can honestly say after taking the tour and skimming through a Dummies for Freemasons book in Books a Million (I guess the E Coast answer to Barnes) – I have absolutely no idea what the Freemasons are all about.
Anyway, we also went to Alexandria, this cute little town outside of DC…cute! Oh and they had the George Washington Masonic Temple there – it was this huge cool temple dealie – it’s supposed to resemble one of the 7 Wonders of the World…which they don’t actually have pictures of, so really, it could have looked like the Space Needle for all we know…
Oh, and random thing of the trip that I can’t seem to keep thinking about…John is convinced this woman in our dorm room was a transsexual – he says that a man peeing in the bathroom is a lot different sounding than a woman and we had a bathroom connected to our room…hmmm, inquiring minds…
Anyway, I’m updated! Except for John’s pics which is going to take forever and 1 day. The internet is kind of slow…
See ya soon!
Tags: RTW Trip, Washington DC
JohnCin
You are too funny! Sounds like you have an adventure in DC!!! Take lots of pictures in S. Africa! I hear it is beautiful! Also be careful as I’ve heard it is a bit dangerous (per a S. Aftrican family who was on the cruise with us). We MISS YA!!!!!
John & Cindy:
Check your e-mail ASAP.