Day 18 & Day 19: Washington!

Day 18 was the ultimate tourist for us - we hopped on a city sightseeing bus around the city of Washington. We didn't really have any idea about where to start in terms of what to see here, so it seemed like the best option for us. After a grocery shop in the morning (we're being cute here and eating all our meals in our lil apartment), we headed to Union Station to get on at the first sightseeing bus, which took us past the Washington Monument and a lot of the Smithsonian museums.

Us on the sight seeing tour bus being epic tourists!

 Our first stop was the at all the president's memorials, including the Thomas Jefferson, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Martin Luther King, the Korean War Veteran and the Abraham Lincoln Memorials.

Thomas Jefferson memorial

We hopped back on the bus until The White House, got a quick pic, then headed to a cafe to pause in air conditioning for a sec, cause the heat was really getting to us!

The White House!

Next stop was at the National Archives, where the originals of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are stored. We felt like this was something we just had to see while we were here. We also checked out some of the public archives which was interesting. The writing was so faded  and we could barely make out what it said - just little bits of "United States of America" and "freedom" here and there...

We then tried to stop off at the Smithsonian Castle, but it was closed by the time we got there, so we just headed home for dinner and a chillax out of the heat!

Day 19 was our designated museum and cupcake day! We started the day off with the Spy Museum! We each got our covers and we began the self guided tour.  It was lots of fun, but at times a little expensive and perhaps not quite worth the $20 we had to pay to get in...After that we headed to the Newseum which was kind of amazing!

There were so many cool Pulitzer prize winning photos and things from 9/11 and a lot of other really interesting things.

Being contemplative looking at award winning photo journalism

ON AIR!

Dedication to the Australian journalists who have left us

This lady was super cool, she sang us a "museum song" and also sang us 'RAPPS' - R for Religion, A for Assembly, P for Petition, P for Press, and S for Speecheh!

Today's headlines all over the USA

They also had an interactive newsroom at the Newseum, where we could pick a location and be reporters. Lets just say it was hilarious. Because there was 3 of us, we had to introduce ourselves before reading from the prompt screen, so we had to wait for it to scroll down before we could start talking and then it didn't make sense because we missed a paragraph and.... yeah. See the video below.

After we left the Newseum we headed to Georgetown, where we were told there was an amazing cupcake place, Georgetown Cupcakes.  We knew they'd be good, but when we arrived and saw a line out the door we were still surprised, and we were not disappointed! We may have even bought two for our dessert after dinner tonight...

We've just finished watching The Beaver (strange movie...) and are now started on Something Borrowed to get us pumped for NEW YORK TOMORROW!

Don't be surprised if there's no blog post tomorrow...it's the 4th of July which means we will hopefully be out having an amazing time in Central Park or whatever!