Daniel: The next day in DC we went on the duck tour. We drove around some more monuments and the whole city then we went on the river. We even got to drive the duck. I was the first person to do it and we drove around and around in circles. After that the driver gave us all quackers (quackptain Franklin was the captain) and we made a lot of quaking noise! But sometime we weren't allowed to quack (but I did it at every chance I got). The name of the boat was Lucky...

Today we squeezed in a quick trip to the Lego shop at the Rockefeller Centre. Daniel raided the Lego wall and got a cool pot of unusual bits and pieces. Then we trundled down to Penn Station to catch the Amtrak train to Washington DC. It occurred to us that New York would be heaven to certain young friends over ours who enjoy public transport... The yellow cabs, black cars, water taxis, ferries, planes, buses, subway, metro and Amtrak lines that punctuate this ci...