Washington D.C.
October 27th 1999 - November 2nd 1999
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Washington DC

Our second stop was Washington DC.  We went for a luxury hotel - the Washington Hilton, which was wonderful. We even nearly met President Clinton there!  We did meet lots of very interesting characters who attended the Halloween Ball on Oct 29- unfortunately none of the photos came out as we lost our entire first roll of film.
Spent our first day on a bus tour of the memorials, and a trip to Arlington cemetery. (and revisited a few of these on a night tour).  A trip to the White House, and the Smithsonian Natural History museum the next day, and the Smithsonian Air & Space museum the day after.
We spent the evening of Oct 31st in Georgetown and enjoyed the uniquely American Halloween festivities.  Other events were a trip out to George Washington's house at Mount Vernon (a beautiful warm fall/autumn day), and a trip to the top of the heavily scaffolded Washington Monument.
And there was so much more we wanted to do...
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above - Garry and Laura at the Lincoln Memorial at night, looking out to the Washington Monument
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above - and the same view during the day.  Pity about the scaffolding
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left - the incredible Korean War Memorial at night (very eerie at night).
Tracy took the picture
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above - night shot of Washington taken from the roof of the JFK  Centre/Center.  Clive took this one
               
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above - the vibrant autumn/fall colours in Washington
right - Clive and Tracy outside the White House
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above - the back of the White House
right - outside the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
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right - George Washington's House at Mount Vernon
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above - outside the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
         
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Halloween Costumes!!!
right - "Mr Lincoln" (according to Laura) sitting in his memorial
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left - view from our room at night.
right - postcard shot of the Washington Hilton & Towers where we spent 5 nights
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    President Clinton actually did visit while we were there (and his multitude of security people) to address a teachers convention also taking place.  We waited at one of the 'possible' entrances, but unfortunately he used the 'underground' one.  Later we found that it would have been unlikely for him to use the one we were waiting at, as it was where President Reagan had been shot a number of years ago...
   
               
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left and right - the Vietnam memorial and gardens
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    Arlington National Cemetery - Resting place of JFK    


 
 

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