Today we all realized that none of us are morning persons. How come? No wonder, if you go to bed at midnight and your alarm goes off at 5:45 am!
After having an early breakfast, in fact, being the first ones in the breakfast room at the hotel. We left surprisingly on time to continue our adventures around the Awesome D.C.
We started of the day with a tour of the majestic U.S. Capitol, accompanied by the funniest and smartest tour guide ever. He knew most of our languages, the answer for all of our questions and even the hilarious desicion of the congress that tomatoes are not considered fruits in the U.S. even though they have seeds, because if you mash them, they don't become tomato Jelly, they become the essential KETCHUP.
Walking through a "secret" underground and mysterious tunnel we entered the Library of Congress. Just kidding, everybody knows the tunnel. When we got there, we first realized that it was not an actual library, but more like a museum, with multiple exhibitions. One of them was about Jacob's Riis famous book "How the Other Half lives". which was pretty interesting.
After the library we had free time to have lunch and visit as much museums as we could in just 6 hours. "We will visit all of them" was our thought, we were certainly wrong. Because most of us only got to see 3 of them. Everyone has different stories about the free time, but in our case, we started of with a very big group. All of us starving due to the early breakfast, walking around D.C. trying to find the closest place to eat, which was 2 blocks down from the capitol, a very good sandwich place by the way. When we found it and filled up our empty stomachs the Journey begun. We head as fast as we could to the "National Museum of Natural History" what ended up in splitting the group in two. Entering the museum was like watching the movie "A Night In The Museum" but for real. We totally failed to keep an eye on everything like Ben Stiller cause we ended up splitting again in groups of at least 3. The museum was amazing, and we found some other exchange students there. We got together with the group and left at 3:00pm to visit the recommended "Holocaust Museum". We were all exhausted, but we kept going.
The Holocaust museum was extremely crowded, and the group split again. But because of our inquisitive spirit, we got tickets (that were actually sold out), and got to see the whole holocaust exhibition. Sadly it was just 5 of us who could fully experience the Holocaust Museum. It was about 2 hours of different emotions and a lot of goosebumps. It was an amazing exhibition but none of us ended it with a huge smile in our faces, like after visiting the other museums.
We headed to our last stop before we had to get in the bus "The National Air and Space Museum". Where we just had a couple of minutes to walk around. They closed all the museums at 5:30pm and we were supposed to leave at 6:00, but we all made it earlier to the bus so we left before 6. Yay!
Our favorite bus driver, Paul, took us to the wonderful East Potomac Park, where we had a pic-nic, with sandwiches, cookies and a beautiful sunset.
After the park, Bruna and Fred surprised us with a short stop at the Lincoln Memorial, so we could say goodbye to our friend Abraham. Being able to see the memorial at night was a whole new experience for us.
P.S. After a tiring/long day we are happy to be able to sleep in tomorrow.
Peace out.
Luca and Cata.
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