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Luxury…..
Today we left Washington DC to fly to New York. We were lucky as Dad received a free upgrade for all of us to sit in Business Class seats. These are bigger seats and we have attention from the air hostess. Once we landed in New York we caught a taxi to our hotel. We [...]
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Full on Touring!
Today we had to get through a LOT of things! We started off by catching the train on the Blue Line to Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington National Cemetery is a military cemetery that was established in the Civil War to honour those people who fought in wars and for American freedom. It has about 320,000 [...]
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Animal Safari
Today my Mum and I walked to the Metro Centre to catch a train on the Red Line to the National Zoological Park.The escalator from the Metro Station near the zoo was really steep. It is the biggest and steepest escalator I have ever been on! This station is the second deepest station in Washington [...]
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Trains and lots of Planes
Today we went to see The White House in daylight. As we are not American citizens, we could not go on a tour inside The White House. After looking at The White House we went to Farragut West Metro Station and caught a train on the orange line to East Falls Church. We caught this [...]
Flying High
Today we went to the National Air and Space Museum, which has exhibitions about space and air travel. This museum has the largest historical spacecraft and aircraft in the world. We spent the majority of our day here because there was so much to see. When we walked into the entrance I spotted the Apollo [...]
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Walking along The National Mall
The National Mall is not a shopping centre. The National Mall is where all the national museums and monuments are. The Mall basically begins at The Capitol and you can then walk all the way along it to the Lincoln Memorial. Yes, it was another day of walking The National Mall is sort of like [...]
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Walking, Walking and More Walking
The day started by walking from our hotel to The Capitol. The Capitol was built in 1793, to house Congress, where the US government makes decisions on laws. It is similar to what happens in the Australian Parliament, i.e. it has a Senate and a House of Representatives. However, I think The Capitol is way [...]
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Leaving on a Jet Plane, Holiday to Washington DC and New York, 21 May to 31 May 2010
It is the 21st of May 2010. Mum woke me up at 4am, what a silly hour to wake up. We had to wake up this early because our flight from Canberra to Melbourne was leaving at 6:40 am. We left Melbourne at 10:10am on an Airbus A380. This is a very interesting plane because it [...]
Birthday Girl!
G’day, this is Hannah’s Dad, Steve. I’m just borrowing Hannah’s blog for a moment to let folks know that today, 27 November 2007, is Hannah’s 10th birthday. She’s managed to make double figures without major damage to herself and has turned into quite the remarkable young lady – smart, funny and worldly. I have high [...]
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Our last day
Today was our last day in the USA before we headed home. We decided to just relax in Beverly Hills before we had to catch the plane. We were lucky as there was a big art festival in the park of Beverly Hills for the weekend, so we wondered around and looked at all the [...]