Day 13! We heard from Ty that brunch was a big thing in DC, so we went to City Tap House this morning. They do bottomless champagne cocktails which we took full advantage of! Plenty of mimosas and bloody Mary's were consumed... We ate lemon ricotta pancakes with maple syrup, strawberries and blueberries which were so good! Then we had a side of sweet potato fries sprinkled in sugar, which were also really tasty! We went to the Crime and Punishment museum in the a...

Day 12! We walked down to the Lincoln memorial, Washington memorial and the area where Martin Luther King gave his speech, which was really good to see! Then we went to the U.S. Holocaust Museum, which was a really good museum (apart from the horrible subject matter obviously), I learned so much! The only downside was there was far too much information to take in because the place was so huge. We just kept going with the museums and headed over to the Smithsonian...

Day 11! We stopped at a cafe near the hostel for breakfast before walking down to the Capitol for a guided tour. The building is amazing outside and inside! We got a tour of the rotunda (the dome) and the old House of Representatives room and the statues room. The Americans sure are patriotic, I lost count of the number of times I heard "freedom" "liberty" and "independence".Then we got passes to go and sit in the gallery to watch the senate in action. Can't say ...