23rd of March .. they said it will rain, well it didn't rain when we got up at 10, but it started in the afternoon.We took our car from the parking lot and started with destination Atlantic City. At 7 pm we arrived at our hotel, we stayed in the crystal inn... 29 bucks for 2 persons, 1 night, including breakfast, nice price.
For dinner we went to the Wonderbar, which was directly located at the waterfront, nice view in the evening, although it was a little foggy.
We visited the beach after dinner, but is was really foggy and it was dark... no beach time.
At the 24th of March we went to Atlantic City again, visited the beach... it rained...
We climbed at the Absecon lighthouse, nice view from above all the little houses, and inbetween the tall casino building.
We continued our trip, heading towards Philadelphia, where we arrived at about 4 pm
Philly is a really beautiful city. It seem kind of small, even there are more than 1 million people living there.
This was the first time we saw cherry blossoms on our trip, but it was definitaly not the last time.
We walked around a little, all the way around the museum of art with its van gogh exhibition.
We are both not really into art, so we skipped that.
We went to the street we saw a few minutes earlier when we were in our car. flags from all over the world were hoised all over the area.
We had no idea what to do here because Philly is really an art city, and we don't like art museums... so we looked for a geocache, really easy one.
All the american geocaches we found were really easy.
In the evening we went out for dinner with our host Anthony. We visited 2 bars (or 3? ... don't remember).
Anthony asked some questions about geocaching, so I showed him how that works at the next day.
So we looked for 2 caches on the 25th of March,
introducing newbees to geocaching is quite funny ^^
After that short geocaching experience we visited the Philly zoo, really big and nice zoo, the first one in the United States.
But we had to go on, so we left Anthony's place.
Thanks for hosting us Anthony ! I hope we can come back to Philly someday, maybe in the summertime.
So we moved on... we took the way over the bay bridge, which is not 4 free but it is totally worth it. The view is great from that giant bridge, and we were there just before sunset, the best time to be at the ocean.
Right before we left DC we got an invitation from a couchsurfing host in Washington DC, that was perfect because all the Hotels in DC were like 20 miles from the city centre. Our couch was just 3 miles away from the white house, perfect place to stay.
The building was located at the highest point of DC and the rooftop view was amazing.
26th of March, sightseeing day, walking day, I think all in all it were about 13 miles, 20 kilometers.
It was a sunny day, temperatures were in the upper 60s (~20°C).
But first of all we had to see the rooftop view in daytime:
We took a 4 mile walk through Massachusetts avenue, the street where all the embassies are located.
The white house... one of the main spots to visit in DC.
The Washington Monument... wow, very tall, and pretty amazing, even from a distance. The reflective pool was under construction but I still like the left picture: Washington Monument in the back, reflective pool. Picture taken from Abe Lincoln Memorial.
Talking about Abraham.. there he is
There were a few other memorials we visited but I think these two are the two ones everybody knows.
We were back at the appartment at about 6:30... and then we saw it... our face was all over red, sunburn... well, 7 hours in the sun without sunshield and hat, no good idea.
In the evening we were cooking, swiss / indian food. Rice with all kinds of vegetables, mushrooms. Along with that lentils and fried fish filet. It was delicious.
Red wine from south Africa and all summed up to a great meal.
On the 27th of March we started WITH a hat.
But we also wanted to stay inside, so we visited the Smithsonian museum of natural history.
The exhibitions are great, its not so huge like the one in NYC, so I liked that better.
The museum is really nice, you can touch some things...
dead things...
and living things :)
In the evening we had ethiopian dinner, interesting experience, it was very good, I had never tried that before. We went to a bar after dinner... had some fun, some beer., and took this picture:
Thank you for hosting us Gunjan!
We really had a great time in DC, we liked the city, Gunjan's place was great and Gunjan himself even better. Thank you ;)
In the next post we will go on to Norfolk, Virginia and to Ocracoke Island and Wilmington afterwards.
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