We headed out quite early and walked to Capitol Hill. I wasn't sure I would be able to find the visitor centre so wanted to make sure we had plenty of time. It is underground so as to not spoil the 'aesthetics' of the place. Like I thought, it wasn't really signposted but we ended up at the right place. I obviously look shifty too at 8:30am as they searched only my bag but I was allowed in in the end =P We had booked to do a tour of the building. We watched a ...

We left Chicago at 7pm last night. Arrived in Pittsburgh at 5:30am and went out to find somewhere for breakfast (well, Emma did and Tara and I sat with the stuff at the train station and then I went with Emma to get the breakfast after she found somewhere). Pittsburgh was nothing like I thought it would be, although it was 6am on a Sat morning and pitch black when we walked around. We reboarded the train at 7:30am for Philadelphia, arriving just before 3pm. Em...

We arrived in Chicago about 10:30am and by the time we collected our luggage and had something to eat, the hotel let us check in so we got rid of the luggage, freshened up and headed out for the afternoon. We caught a bus to Navy Pier, admiring all the different buildings along the way. Whilst Navy Pier is not the bustling centre I'm sure it is in the summer (all the cruise boats were frozen in along the wharf in Lake Michigan), there were still things to do a...

Up fairly early as had to pack and eat our complimentary breakfast at the hotel before heading to the train station for a 10:30am train. We were glad we had come straight to Niagara as it was snowing so not sure whether you would even be able to see the Falls today! We travelled 15 minutes over to Niagara, US and had to spend 1 ½ hours in our seats while they performed an immigration and customs check on everyone. It was quite amusing. The quarantine guy was qu...

We have a view of Niagara Falls from our hotel window! Ok, it's a bit blocked by trees and is only the American Falls but still... We headed out about 10am to see the Falls. It was a short walk to the American Falls and we had some photos before heading towards the Horseshoe Falls. By the time we got to the building that you go through to do Journey Behind the Falls, we were absolutely soaked! It was quite windy so there was so much mist coming from the Falls ...