Last Day in Washington D.C. on a Cruise

Absolutely enjoying the long sleep-in, I still woke up at around 8 o'clock and decided it was time to pack all my stuff together. I had to sort out what papers to take with me and which not. We always get so much paper at these FAMs, but usually you can look all of that up on the Visit XXX website... So I could lighten my luggage a bit at least.
Then it was time to check out and get into the bus and back to the wharf for our last point on the FAMs' itinerary. We had a cruise around DC with some Gogo music experience. And no, it's not music the gogo dancers dance to, it's actually drum and percussion based music, created by Chuck Brown in DC. The drums they use originally come from West Africa, and were brought over with the hundreds of slave ships. The enslaved black people brought the drums and the music and created some community around that. Five years ago, it was officially named the music of Washington.
It was awesome, sunny weather, and I was standing outside most of the time to enjoy it before returning back to cold Germany.
We saw the Marine One, the helicopter of the president, doing lots of rounds above us, and I wondered how many times, the actual president sat in it. Again a very weird feeling to know such power is in the same place at the same time as you are. We also saw lots of planes taking off and landing at the Reagan Airport, which sat right next to the water, so that it looked as if the planes were landing/rolling on it. We could also just make out the Pentagon in the distance and see the NCIS headquarters. Really cool.
The last point on our itinerary ended, and we went back to our bus to say goodbye to the people who'd stay a bit longer than we did and drive to the Dulles Airport. I could ride on one of these cool NASA sci-fi moon landing kinda trucks again after checking in and saying goodbye to the rest of the group, even Stef. I'd miss these guys, it was a really good time with them. I had some shopping time left and spent it with Doreen. Then Yannick and Chiara arrived from the Baltimore tour, and we got ourselves some fancy fall-themed coffees at Starbucks, before boarding the plane. I sat in-between Thorsten and Yannick, Chiara sat behind Yannick, so our German group was close together. The flight was calm and quiet and kinda cozy as well. But I didn't sleep for a single second. The usual then.Okumaya devam et