The what house? The White House?

We had two full days to explore Washington after the first evening, so the next day began the exploration of the Smithsonian museums. First up was the air and space museum. We signed up for a free guided tour, which whilst informative was probably a little too informative for my liking, and it took me less than 10 minutes to decide this tour was not for me, and I opted to sight see for myself. 

We also explored Washington by finding the shopping area – the girls were after red clothes for our Valentines day evening that was coming up in Savannah. We ventured into the subway system in DC and managed to make it back to where we were staying, though going into the subway when its sunny and coming out when its snowing was a new experience.

We headed to Georgetown for a night out grabbing dinner then meeting the rest of the group at a bar for some drinks and mingling to get to know people more. By chance we ended up at Serendipity (I didn’t even know they had one in DC). I did walk to explore the DC cupcakes Georgetown Cupcakes, but even in the ridiculously freezing weather and at 8pm at night the line up was still around the block, so I opted to not wait in the snow and thus didn’t get to see inside or try one of the famous cupcakes.

Day 3 was sleep in day, we decided to skip the bus into the city centre and use our street smarts (asking for help) and catch the metro to the white house . This adventure provided much humour after a conversation of being misunderstood when asking how to get to the white house being replied with the “what house” “the white house” “the what house”. Eventually we had our directions and set off, making a stop first for a hot caramel and some food.

The cold ended up being too much for me and I chose to go back to the hotel and warm up this was the -11 day and as much as I love seeing the sights I also enjoy being healthy and knowing I still had 2 months to go I really didn’t want to be sick.