Wednesday 27th December 2006

After a horrible nights sleep we finally dragged ourselves off to see Capital Hill but arrived with a massive line. We persisted and managed to get tickets but the time was too late as we were catching our bus to Philly around the same time so we headed off to the Monuments of Washington DC. We started with the Franklin Monument and then walked to the Roosevelt and then onto the Korean War Memorial before making our way to the Lincoln Memorial. After that we walked along the reflecting pool to the WWII Memorial making a massive hike around the city. In Washington DC the Captial Building is directly in line with the Lincoln Memorial albeit quite a distance apart but in order to see all the memorials we effectively did a massive semi-circle of the city. Trust us it was a big day. We finished off our time in Washington DC with some lunch before heading to the Hostel to pick up our bags to go to the Greyhound Station.

We arrived in Philly after dark and started walking towards our hostel as we believed it was quite close - or so the map on the hostel website told us - but we ended up catching a taxi after walking for a while. We arrived and checked in and then went for some dinner before crashing into bed for some well earned sleep.