Friday 22nd December 2006

We managed to drag ourselves out of bed after the worst nights sleep ever and caught a bus to the airport to catch our flight at 9.00am. It was an awfully overcast day with dizzly rain to boot and after we arrived in New York for our layover before our flight to Washington DC the weather didnt improve so much so that our flight was delayed for over an hour. To compensate this loss of time we both completely crashed in the airport lounge - on the carpet mind you - until we decided that food might be a better option. We were finally able to board our flight but the weather still hadnt improved. There was massive storms in the Western half of the country which caused huge delays for all other airports and it seems we had managed to miss the cold weather once again.

We arrived in Baltimore which is about 50 kms out of Washington DC and we caught a train into the city and then a cab from Union Station to our hostel as it was still drizzling rain. After standing in line forever to checkin we dumped our bags and headed to the closest place that provided food which turned out to be an Indian restraunt across the street. It was lovely food and we had a great time but we were both so tired from our lack of sleep that we headed upstairs to bed the minute dinner was over.