Saturday July 9

 Saturday July 9


Up early - breakfast was SO MUCH BETTER today and back on the I95 headed to Maryland. Rain started 5 minutes after we left and poured most of the day. 

We pulled into Baltimore and went to Fort McHenry to check it out but the majority of the tor was outdoors so we had to bail as it was coming down in sheets. 

We popped over to Starbucks for you know who and made a plan for the rest of the day. 

We headed to a local Costco and filled up with fuel for $4.35/gallon. Phenomenal deal actually. We wandered into the store to check it out and buy some gift cards to a local restaurant. 




Back on the highway and into Washington DC. We found a place to park in a neighbourhood 3 blocks from the library of Congress. We rolled up, got some Wi-Fi and booked four tickets. 

What an amazing building. Librarians dream and Awesome for a teacher or any lover of books or history. 

38 million books. 

15 million photographs. 

164 million artifacts. 

Spread out in multiple buildings but the main one alone had millions of things. 

We toured for a couple hours and watched a great video and my favourite thing was the price tag. FREE!!! Hooray!!!! 































We left and walked 5 blocks past the Capitol building and US Supreme Court then numerous museums before entering one of the multiple Smithsonian ones. Museum of Natural History. Huge!!! We spent 90 minutes before it closed and could use another 3 days as there was so much stuff to see!! Pretty full of people too. 














We grabbed a couple hot dogs outside and walked near the Washington Monument but headed back towards the car as everyone’s feet were giving out. 






We are going to do an all day bike rental tomorrow so we can cover more ground in less time. 

We walked another 2Kms and slumped into our car. SO. TIRED!! 

Drove half an hour toward our hotel and went to Famous Dave’s BBQ shack and ate a meatfest!




 Another 15mins to our hotel near the Dulles airport and making a plan of attack for the morning.




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