Heading to the airport!
2022年8月30日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
All the bags! In the taxi and off to Heathrow we go.
Heathrow Airport
2022年8月30日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
We are all checked in, our bags have been dropped off.
We've queued and made it through security (James' hand sanitizer was checked), grabbed one final Pret coffee (OK with a yoghurt pot and baconもっと詳しく
Dublin Airport
2022年8月30日, アイルランド ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
We landed safely in Dublin after a short flight.
Unfortunately there was a departing plane at our gate, so we had to sit on our plane for a while before we could park up and get off. Fortunately weもっと詳しく
City Hall
2022年8月31日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
A few blocks from our apartment was Philadelphia city hall
Wonderspaces - Philadelphia
2022年8月31日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
A mixture of interactive art exhibits
The Liberty Bell 🛎
2022年8月31日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
It's a bell, with a crack in it 🤷🏼
Pop up karaoke 🎤
2022年8月31日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 23 °C
Whilst walking the streets to our apartment we stumbled across this pop up karaoke. A bit of Miley Cyrus followed by Queen
Rocky Steps
2022年9月1日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
James is a huge fan of the Rocky movies. Of course the training montages ending wirh Rocky Balboa runnung up the stair case in front of the museum of art is an iconic scene in cinema and James justもっと詳しく
Angelo's Pizzeria South Philly
2022年9月1日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
You can't go to Philadelphia without getting a Philly cheesteak.
Franklin Institute
2022年9月1日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
A science museum with lots of interactive exhibits, great for children and James.
East State Penitentiary
2022年9月1日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
We went to East State Penitentiary for an evening tour.
The first prison every built in the world and even housed Al Capone for a bit (yeah we knew of the name, didn't realise who it was. But we shallもっと詳しく
But first, a coffee
2022年9月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
We can't start the day with loads of travel without grabbing a Starbucks first.
Greyhound Terminal
2022年9月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Time for us to catch a bus (we used Peter Pan buses though, not greyhound as it was cheaper and they let us include all our bags)
Bus crash
2022年9月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
It seems a couple (5 cars and our bus) of cars crashed on the highway and may have clipped our bus. We snaked down the highway for a little bit (felt like we were going to roll) and now we are sat onもっと詳しく
Welcome to Baltimore, MD
2022年9月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Just a bus stop, dropping off and picking up people. We aren't staying. But we can now check off Maryland as a state?
Made it to DC!
2022年9月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Finally made it to DC, only an hour late after the bus crash.
Now to make it to our hotel, drop our bags off and dash to the pre-booked museum
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
2022年9月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Didn't take any photos here due to the nature of the museum. As a free museum it was really well laid out, with loads of information and exhibits, unfortunately the layout didn't suit the volume ofもっと詳しく
Washington Monument
2022年9月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Next up was to see the giant 🍆 obelisk.
*knock knock* Biden isn't home right now
2022年9月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Casa blanca
Pizza
2022年9月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Pizza bib! Great for the "kids" (James)
The other kids were doing it!
2022年9月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
We went to take a look at the Washington Monument at night to see it all lit up. Whilst we were looking at it. We saw a group of kids laying down on the floor putting their feet up against the obeliskもっと詳しく
Capitol at night
2022年9月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
A little shot of the Capitol building lit up
Tourist run around National Mall
2022年9月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
We set off for a morning run around the National Mall, seeing the Washington Monument (again), Capitol (up a bit closer than last night), past the Lincoln memorial, along the Lincoln memorialもっと詳しく
Post run coffee
2022年9月3日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌧 24 °C
We stopped into "Dua" for a couple of post run iced coffees.
Waffles by mistake
2022年9月3日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌧 25 °C
We thought we had picked up a couple of sausage and egg bagels for breakfast. Turns out we got the waffles by mistake 😬