Smithsonian Zoo

We went to bed at 11.00pm after watching some Netflix on Dave’s phone hopeful that the power would be back on when we woke up. Given the fact that we were told that the generator would be installed early in the evening and it was now 11.00pm we didn’t hold much hope!

We woke up this morning at 7.30am to yet again no power! Annoyed was an understatement. We had the mobile number of the manager and I had just finished typing a text to her and was just about ready to hit send when the power came back on. 3 full days and 2.5 nights without power and 2 nights of cold bird baths had come to an end - hooray! Dave and I both said it was a very expensive camping trip to DC but with our camping at least we had hot water.

We both got into the shower pretty quickly just in case the power went out again and let me tell you that shower was THE best shower!

For our last full day in Washington we decided to walk to the Smithsonian Zoo which is out in the suburbs and all free. It’s massive and we had an amazing day! And it was a gorgeous day with a high of 8 degrees. We couldn’t believe we were experiencing 30 degrees difference in temperature to our last day in Chicago! And walking through the suburbs there are so many beautiful buildings to look at. We got an uber back to our room.

After dinner we went for a walk to all the monuments and memorials to take photos at night.

We walked 17.2kms today.Read more