The boys were both a little dusty in the morning and they reluctantly got up and checked out of the hotel and headed out for some breakfast at our now familiar Le Pain Quotidien.
Instead of waiting for our bus to arrive, we headed up to Georgetown in a taxi to head out for a cruise in the river. Shaky little boat with very smelly toilets that almost overcame all of us! But it was a chance to see all of the monuments we had seen the previous days from a different perspective.
With the hour long cruise at an end, we waited for our hop on, hop off to arrive, which should have been around 15mins. After waiting over 1/2 hour, we decided to put our theory to the test -’l bet that if we hail down the next cab our bus will arrive’. Sure enough, that is exactly what happened but we opted to go with the cab anyway as we had lost enough time.
From union square station again for a quick bite of lunch, we then walked across to the Capitol Building again which we couldn’t get into as it was closed, which unfortunately is the case for most of Washington on Sundays. It did give us a chance to walk around and check out lots of architecture though from the grand Public Library to the High Court.
From there we walked through the mall again and down to the Modern & Contemporary Art Museum. We started in the West Building and then went underground on an amazing light fantastic moving walkway and tunnel to get to the East Building. Skipping past the sculpture garden and a disabled protest (that had shut down the white house the day before), and we hopped onto one of the last buses for the day we were able to check out Chinatown, before making the trip back to Dupont Circle for some well deserved beers. We then had a light meal before grabbing our bags from the hotel and heading back to Union Station to await our train back to NYC at 8.45pm.
An uneventful journey ride back, (with Bel beating John again at battleship, although she did let him have one so that he would play again another day). Arriving into Penn Station at 12.15am, it was a quick taxi home and straight to bed exhausted!
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