Day 2 in DC

Today we drank a lot of coffee, because today we needed to stay awake a lot in order to enjoy the last day!

We met our guide, Kara, who had a really good outfit.  She took us to the Capitol Building, which we thought was the White House!  In a lot of places in Washington D.C. the architecture is copied from buildings in Rome and Greece, like the Capitol for example. 

At the Library of Congress, there was a Gutenberg Bible which was really cool.  We saw books, books, books, books and books, and an exposition of nothing. 

Our next stop was the White House.  We had to look at it through bars from really far away.  The trees there are beautiful, because they’re starting to bloom.  We tried to look into all the windows to see Obama, but we couldn’t see him. 

The secret service was there, though!

Finally we went to the Washington Monument.  We tried to take pictures of the Obelisk, but it was so big we couldn’t even fit it in the frame!

Then we went to the National Mall – which isn’t a shopping mall, but a big garden.  We were all starving, so first we ate in the awesome café in the American Indian Museum, where you can find food from all different parts of the Americas.  There were a lot of different museums to visit, but we could also sit on the grass and chill out with a coffee.  We also went to the IMAX theater in the Air and Space Museum, where we watched a movie about the Universe with Leonardo Dicaprio’s voice.

Finally we finished our day in Georgetown.  It’s a beautiful neighborhood, where we got to go shopping.  We ate dinner there, which the food was good, but we weren’t super hungry because we ate a lot of snacks in the afternoon!!  It was Aitana’s birthday, so we celebrated by singing all together a song. 

On the way home, we had a party bus and we danced and sang and clapped the whole way home.

-Dorothy (Italy)

-Yuri (Brasil)

-Jose (Chile) 

Special message from the birthday girl: Today it was my birthday and I've only known everyone here from 5 days ago, but everyone was with me and giving me things and preparing things for me.  It was really cool that people I don't even know were doing all those things for me, and I don't want to leave. I had a really good and unique 16th birthday.  - Aitana (Spain)