Monday 21st May
Off to yet another US Post Office, at Chevy Chase this time,
with 8 lb parcel to send home-by now you must be thinking we have nothing left
in our suitcases but we each still have about 19 kilos each. Then met up with
Michael in a movie theatre coffee shop for a very pleasant hour with very good expresso
coffee and Washington Post.
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| Michael and Lyndsay in Chevy Chase coffee shop |
Then off to Radio Shack and Best Buy to try to buy new
battery for Lyndsays Nokia phone which had died. No joy, can only do online but
long delivery time so bought new Samsung 3500 phone, cheapest unlocked phone in
shop (subsequently in London bought the appropriate battery for Nokia off Amazon UK for 2.95 GBP, free delivery and
delivered next day –wow!!)
The ventured onto Metro again –to White House front aspect
for obligatory photo op ( with several hundred other people), then main Vietnam Memorial, again low key memorial but
pretty sobering to see 60,000 names here, a lost generation of young Americans.
Also Women’s Vietnam memorial too.
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| Lyndsay with White House front aspect |
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| Main Vietnam Memorial |
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| Nurses Vietnam Memorial |
Then on to Lincoln Memorial at end of Mall –lots of
inspiring words plus you could really imagine Martin Luther King giving his “I
have dream” speech from there.
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| Lincoln memorial |
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| Looking down Mall from Lincoln memorialack fence |
Walked back around the northern side of the White House –interesting to watch the procedure as a little garden rubbish truck came out the gate -5 guards in a well choreographed dance and great steel bars that came up to lock the gate afterwards. Had a finger waggled at me by a guard as I photographed this momentous event!!
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| At the White House back fence |
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| At the White House back gate |
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| Gardening truck coming out back gate |
Then to a café for another hour where we sat next to the Washington correspondent of a gay website having a shouted Skype conversation about gay marriage, which suddenly is flavour of month in the Presidential campaign ( Yawn !!)
Then we did some shopping in Macys and home on Metro and E6
bus before Michael (at Commencement ceremonies)
and Saida ( at meditation) so met the baby sitter Grace.
Spent evening till midnight going thru the US citizenship
quiz that Michael had to sit next day (he passed) and we would have done quite well too!!
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