Touring Washington DC

Well the headline says it all... I was touring the nations capital for a longer 4-days-weekend and to cut a long story short, it wasn't enough, by far. There is so much to see you wouldn't believe it... so many memorials, government buildings and museums. And to top it of I even had an invitation to the White House! No joke! Getting one is a quite complicated process and you have to write your congressman and getting security checked just for getting set on a long waiting list.

And guess what! I got it... I was sooo happy for approximately five minutes till I read the time and date. Unfortunately his secretary messed the dates up and so I was booked for the wrong day. And because of security reasons they can tell you only a few days in advanced if you are going or not, far too late to rebook on another date and time. Oh well... really a pity but there was still so much more to see! Especially as I was calling over not for any weekend but the Memorial Day weekend so all war memorials were decorated (like the Korean War memorial on the right). And lots of people were in town.

So I had the chance to see a street parade, a biker parade the day before, ceremonial changing of guards at the national cemetery, a concert in the Capitol gardens and many other things. And the best of all... it all came for FREE! Here was some good value for my bucks, everything was already paid for with my tax dollars ;-) So in the next posts I will tell you more about how I was counting the different security agencies, tried to relive some key scenes of National Treasure, spend hours in museums and also how I met the president o the United States.