Not a great start to the morning, cold showers and our milk had been drunk..hmm! Anyway, we headed to downtown to explore. We're quite close to everything, we didn't realize yesterday!!Our first stop was the Old Post Office tower which had many of the original features and you were able to go up to the top of the tower, just above the 111 year old clock. We were able to see about 10miles out, and quite well considering the cloudy day, but at least it wasn't raini...

We woke to hear the sound of pitter pattering rain drops outside so really appreciated our extra hour in bed (the clocks went back a week later here?!)! We had our own breakfast for once but really enjoyed it, we both miss having cereal! We headed out on to the quiet streets of Washington! Seemed eerily quiet everywhere, perhaps because it was Sunday and it was raining! We got a day pass for the Metro to save us getting as wet, and headed over to The Capitol bu...

We both slept surprisingly well but were awoken to announcement saying that one of the engines wasn't working and that we were already 2 hours behind schedule! They decided to carry on with one engine but it meant going much slower and delaying us even more.In a way this suited us as we could catch up on sleep, laze around and Mark could stay snug and try and get rid of his cold. The only problem being that I was catching his cold! Humf!We made slow progress for ...