Saturday, June 19, 2004
Tour Diary
Day 2
Day started off with us being woken up for breakfast by Mr Varecka. the girls being the organised people they are were down there alot quicker before us. We ended up PAYING for our breakfast and had buffet. since we figured it was buffet, and we had to buy lunch, we jsut ate alot at breakfast :D. So we headed up got ready for a big day which was ahead of us. we caught a small cramped shuttle down to foggy bottom and there we caught our trian ride into the Smithsonian Institute. THe first thing i noticed was that the trains were acutally on time! they travelled very quickly and had no power lines above meaning htat the tracks were powered. the trains travelled about 2 time the speed of the trains we have, butthey were single deck trains. which was interesting.
so arriving in the smithsonian area we departed with Mrs Pfuhl and we left to conquerwashington washington
The "Big Stick in the Ground!"
We then slowly made a pilgrimage towards the white house with me as navigator. So as we passed the dpeartment of commerce we encountered our first squirrel.... As children we are easily distracted so gues wat? we chased the squirrel along the wall for about 50 metres. then we decide to move on when the squirrel ran away. So we began our pilgrimage towards the white house once again and then we find a whole field of squirrels. we chased htem everywehre with cameras in our hands we looked like such tourists. then there was one squirrel which jsut clung fom the tree almost posing. We found the white house and it was croweded and packed with people. nothing much to see so we decided to goto the norht side of the white house , the further side, where nobody really goes. On the way there wemade our famous WO sign on the steps of the WWI statue.
WO on the steps of the WWI memorial!
After our long long trek we arrived. to find that they were doing construction. -_-'. so we saw the front of the white house through a metal fence.
Barred from the white house... how symbolistic
We were so bored we started to take random pics! like playing chess with no chess pieces, or drinking out of the dirty water.
Chess.... with no chess pieces!
drinking the dirty water!
So we had enuf of the white house we wanted to go see some museums so off we headed to the Smithsonian Institue. On the way there all of a sudden we decided to switch our shoes. so we switched our shoes. So we walked a few metres but we had to stop because Imogen couldn't stop laughing. Sarah's feet were so small and Josh's shoes were so big. so ther was this huge size difference plus Imogen had Harmonnia's high heals and she was wearing sandals so she laughed even more.
We switched our shoes!
Once we all got our original shoes on we continued towards the smithsonian institue seeing sum interesting statues along the way. At the door of the Smithsonian there were huge lines as they were checking everybody for bombs..... walking in we saw Apollo 1 encased in plastic.
Apollo 11!
We walked upstairs and saw OUR moon, not America's moon or Australias moon as stated by some stupid person. So all this walking made us hungry. so we went to maccas. soo much food. soo large sizes. their large was uber large. andtheir meddium was jsut bigger than our large! no wonder supersize is so damaging! the maccas has a cool drinks area where u jsut fill up your cup instead of them filling it for you. Well we were now well fed and we found we were running low on time. we hadto meet mrs Phful back at the train station. so we ran. we took a few photos along the way and saw some guys playing soccer. Then harmonnia decide we should get Hadeny Frost a birthday present. but what? we jsut left the smithsonian. We got haYden a moon Rock! well nto really a moon rock. more like an earth pebble. it'll do. We took a while to find the right one but eventually we got it. Getting back to the hotem we swarmed into the girls room to wrap our beautiful present. we layerd it with pages form Liz's Notebook and gaffa tape! Mr buggy suddenly knocked at our door and we had to go back to our room and get changed to goto the cathedral.
Walking into the cathedral we noticed how huge it was! everybody was shouting out ECHO! The cahtedral also had this giant stained glass rose down the end!
Cathedral Rose
We played extremely well and our sound just floated thru the cathedral. At the end of it we got a standing ovation and an encore! Afterwards we went to a great diner type place with Mr Varecka to have dinner. On the way there we took a picture with one of the pandas they had floating around the City.
One of the many pandas found around Washington
We had so much pizza and we convinced Hovo that Olympic was in 2005! We walked back to the hotel singing Waltzing Matilda.
Day 2
Day started off with us being woken up for breakfast by Mr Varecka. the girls being the organised people they are were down there alot quicker before us. We ended up PAYING for our breakfast and had buffet. since we figured it was buffet, and we had to buy lunch, we jsut ate alot at breakfast :D. So we headed up got ready for a big day which was ahead of us. we caught a small cramped shuttle down to foggy bottom and there we caught our trian ride into the Smithsonian Institute. THe first thing i noticed was that the trains were acutally on time! they travelled very quickly and had no power lines above meaning htat the tracks were powered. the trains travelled about 2 time the speed of the trains we have, butthey were single deck trains. which was interesting.
so arriving in the smithsonian area we departed with Mrs Pfuhl and we left to conquer
The "Big Stick in the Ground!"
We then slowly made a pilgrimage towards the white house with me as navigator. So as we passed the dpeartment of commerce we encountered our first squirrel.... As children we are easily distracted so gues wat? we chased the squirrel along the wall for about 50 metres. then we decide to move on when the squirrel ran away. So we began our pilgrimage towards the white house once again and then we find a whole field of squirrels. we chased htem everywehre with cameras in our hands we looked like such tourists. then there was one squirrel which jsut clung fom the tree almost posing. We found the white house and it was croweded and packed with people. nothing much to see so we decided to goto the norht side of the white house , the further side, where nobody really goes. On the way there wemade our famous WO sign on the steps of the WWI statue.
WO on the steps of the WWI memorial!
After our long long trek we arrived. to find that they were doing construction. -_-'. so we saw the front of the white house through a metal fence.
Barred from the white house... how symbolistic
We were so bored we started to take random pics! like playing chess with no chess pieces, or drinking out of the dirty water.
Chess.... with no chess pieces!
drinking the dirty water!
So we had enuf of the white house we wanted to go see some museums so off we headed to the Smithsonian Institue. On the way there all of a sudden we decided to switch our shoes. so we switched our shoes. So we walked a few metres but we had to stop because Imogen couldn't stop laughing. Sarah's feet were so small and Josh's shoes were so big. so ther was this huge size difference plus Imogen had Harmonnia's high heals and she was wearing sandals so she laughed even more.
We switched our shoes!
Once we all got our original shoes on we continued towards the smithsonian institue seeing sum interesting statues along the way. At the door of the Smithsonian there were huge lines as they were checking everybody for bombs..... walking in we saw Apollo 1 encased in plastic.
Apollo 11!
We walked upstairs and saw OUR moon, not America's moon or Australias moon as stated by some stupid person. So all this walking made us hungry. so we went to maccas. soo much food. soo large sizes. their large was uber large. andtheir meddium was jsut bigger than our large! no wonder supersize is so damaging! the maccas has a cool drinks area where u jsut fill up your cup instead of them filling it for you. Well we were now well fed and we found we were running low on time. we hadto meet mrs Phful back at the train station. so we ran. we took a few photos along the way and saw some guys playing soccer. Then harmonnia decide we should get Hadeny Frost a birthday present. but what? we jsut left the smithsonian. We got haYden a moon Rock! well nto really a moon rock. more like an earth pebble. it'll do. We took a while to find the right one but eventually we got it. Getting back to the hotem we swarmed into the girls room to wrap our beautiful present. we layerd it with pages form Liz's Notebook and gaffa tape! Mr buggy suddenly knocked at our door and we had to go back to our room and get changed to goto the cathedral.
Walking into the cathedral we noticed how huge it was! everybody was shouting out ECHO! The cahtedral also had this giant stained glass rose down the end!
Cathedral Rose
We played extremely well and our sound just floated thru the cathedral. At the end of it we got a standing ovation and an encore! Afterwards we went to a great diner type place with Mr Varecka to have dinner. On the way there we took a picture with one of the pandas they had floating around the City.
One of the many pandas found around Washington
We had so much pizza and we convinced Hovo that Olympic was in 2005! We walked back to the hotel singing Waltzing Matilda.
