Eastern USA Tour - Day 3. Mainly Washington DC part 1

 sorry for the really really late post, i seriously wasn't bothered to blog as soon as i got home, had all the trouble with suitcase explosion *cough* and the north shore sighh. the first half was actually typed the night i got back from america, hopefully it's re-jogged my memory. if not i'll just have to rely on the pictures. and luckily i have over a 1000 woooooooo
ALSO, to make up for my lack of um....persistence?consistence that's it i've decided to take the trouble and fk up my net usage even more by posting some pictures nyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh. this is kind of long btw =D


 *rewinds to 20 something dec 2009!*

SOOOOOO..woke up feeling exceptionally sleep deprived, on average i've been getting 4-6 hours of sleep on an actuall bed.
the rest i make up for it on the lovely bus
hopped onto the bus, realised i didn't have my scarf, ran back to the room, stripped all the bed covers, didn't find it, ran back to the bus, gave up on my scarf, hopped onto my seat, fell asleep.
woke up in....maryland. where we had breakfast in a small building that had pizza hut, kfc, burger king, starbucks, etc etc off the side of the freeway for hungry people eg. us :)

i went straight to starbucks. and oh man i ordered the most retarded thing.
i was scanning the menu, la la la, and i saw "pumpkin spice frappucino"
and i thought. YUMM they don't hvae that in australia!!! actually ihaven't seen a starbucks in australia in a long time anyway
so i ordered it! and didn't realise that it was a COLD drink *face palm*
so i froze during my breakfast. and then when my dad got a flat white i was like AARGGGH HOT DRINK GIMMEEEEEEE
i only got the last gulpfuls =(
anyway....ddni't finish the drink...oh and couldn't have anyway because for some reason after we came back from our first stop it was somehow on the floor all split. ehehehehe................i'll just blame vivian it was on her side of the bus...*cough*

then back on the bus and we drove off to philadelphia. first stop that we went to was to the Liberty Bell. i was still kind of drowsy and slightly cranky that i had been woken up....i think a few people know i am NOT the best morning person :)
i cbs talking about it cos frankly it isn't very exciting. yes took a few pics with the bell and of the boards that have information on it etcetra etcetera
then we walked outside and saw quite a few interesting things. philadelphia is famous for their...cheese steaks? cream cheese steaks? SOMETHING RELATED TO CHEESE! perhaps that's where "philadelphia cheese" comes from. oh speaking of cheese today i opened the fringe and was mingling about and i saw a packet of cream cheese and was like oh i wonder what this tastes like and then i opened it and there were squiggly column lines of MOULD! situation went like this....
*pokes around in the fridge*
"cream cheese! how interesting!"
*opens packet and sees the mould/mold/i don't know*
*screams and flings the packet onto the bench, picks it up from the other side of the packet and chucks it in the bin. runs awaay.*
that is my daily life.
no, i'm joking, okay, i'm getting sidetracked. BACK TO PHILADELPHIA AND STALLS SELLING CHEESE-THINGS.

"A tastier Target"

they're gonna be selling fruits and vegs and other foodies in target WOOOOW no sarcasm.
i wonder how many years it'll be until austraila has that. or we won't even have that :(

 PHILLY CHEESE STEAKS AND PRETZELS
yes because i just had to put it in caps.


"god bless america"

i love that saying!

and here we have the dude selling them! he kept giving me shifty glances, thinking i was some fob tourist.
"OF COURSE I AM LAH -" okay fobby accents don't work  online = = "

then back onto the warm warm bus. oh, we were watching this chinese game show, really hilarious :)
next stop was lunch. wow.....eating seems to be a huge part of this trip lol. ANOTHER thing philadelphia is famous for is this crab cream soup - we ordered it with some other stuff, dont' remember the price but it was SUCH a rip off pffsh.
the crab cream soup, fkk it was so so so creamy just one spoon and i felt sick, as if i was drinking cream with pieces of crab and now i refuse to talk about it anymore because i feel a little queasy :S :S :S :S
but it was really nice =). except the price.

then back outside where viv and i had a little game of snow ball fighting, and man there was heaps of snow came to about our shins? i stepped in the snow and was like "holy shit it's so deep!!!!!"

ahhhhh, so pretty. except for that messy on the left corner. i wonder who was loserish enough to ruin the would-be-perfect-winter-snow-picture. :)

then we headed off to washing dc!!!! yeaaah!!!!

first thing we visited was the Abraham Lincoln Memorial. Some of you might know it if you've watched night at the museum 2 and saw the huge statue which was abraham lincoln stomping around....is that right? i can't remember much of the film lol except that i watched it with grace lol

i nearly died when i saw the pathway to it. first we had to cross the road, i've learnt to love jaywalking now lmao and then onto the worst footpath ever. about 10cm layer of thick, bumpy, slippery, smooth ice with half melted squidgy sloppy muddy snow randomly strewed on it. BUT!!!!!!

me, being the ever awesome potato didn't fall YAAAY! of course i did a few slips but =D ahaha i had to kind of....grab onto vivian's arm though...

okay so pathway pathway and then cross over to some big hill and we had to also go up that *sigh* and there it was just really really slippery ice adskfl;ajwpoietghal;dskjf. and really really bright, the snow was reflecting the sun etc etc bad eyesight.

 

 our ever awesome fobby tour guide, leo! as you latin people, you'll know his name means "lion" but he's nothing like one. or is he.....

well he doesn't know his name means lion he just refered to it as "...a very short name so it's easy to remember!" yeah.

at least he's wearing yellow and SERIOUSLY standing out from the crowd?

since we're on the topic of mr. leo, i forgot to write some stuff he said when we were in new york. he was telling us that if he ever tells us an address it's on a "street", not "avenue" because holy crap they have SO many avenues go past 100 i think? so yes very easy to get lost. anyway he said
"okay now if you don't get lost, don't cry, be brave, just ring my number!"
i mean, combined with a fob accent the words "don't cry, be brave" were just so....LOL WTHECK? i reckon they're his signature words. he said it more than 10 times in new york and heaps in washington dc.

dad aka walking orange, blinding snow and entrance to amazing memorial.

as you can see, there were heaps and heaps of steps - good exercise! but anyway, the statue is really impressive as is the rest of the architectural structures ie. the roman like pillars and the high ceilings. on both sides of the walls are hand ingraved words, i think, laws or something?

above the statue of abraham are the words " IN THIS TEMPLE AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNION THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS ENSHRINED FOREVER"

man, don't you reckon those words are so inspiring? and that to be an american would be so cool, i mean you have so much history behind you, all these great presidents and shit ones *coughgeorgebushcough* - my dad said that nine eleven twin tower disaster was for him lol

americans are so proud to be americans! and we australians kind of suck.......

looking incredibly happy chappy here....who wouldn't be? oh yeah, if you really like history, washington dc is the place to go. this usa trip was goood i discovered that i quite like american history and i'd be happy to write up some big assignment on it - so interesting! and now i shall stop sounding like a nerd.

         






AHAHA and this pic, well, we saw a couple getting married or having some engagement thing...marriage related oh i don't know ==", but, seriously, who the heck would get married HERE?! and okay this is mean but we were like "why would a guy like him marry such a bitch-faced fat chick like her"

honestly, she kept whining about the weather and blah blah blah, she had a TERRIBLE wedding dress on, gosh, she could've gotten a beautiful snowy white dress with some small crystals and she'd look like some ice princess there and it could've covered her legs and the shoes she was weraing just fked it up even worse, her make-up was lame, probably doesn't even know what concealer is *rolls eyes epicly* and her hair is so god damn boring, i mean, if they were there to just take pictures for the wedding album or something they could have at least done something nice? but we saw other dressed-up people holding champagne glasses sliding over the ice *snicker*anyway, i was like "omg omg take a pic take a pic viv GIVE ME THE CAMERA!" so i took it and LOL the dude is pointing in our direction....although he isn't really looking at us? what do you think? do you think he's pointing at the camera/me like i'm some fob stalker or he's just randomly pointing and saying something.........

i'd like to keep my identity as low profile as possible, you know? ^^

okay so that pointy thing above my head....ummmmmm i THINK it's another memorial for some other famous person? not very sure. who cares, abraham lincoln statue is the best okay. :)

and yes i think i went slightly bonkers in paint with the wonderful colourful lines. I LIKE IT!

okay after that we went beneath the memorial to more stuff and information about lincoln, his famous speeches as well as other famous democratic americans. like there were extracts from martin luther king jr "i have a dream" speech, very inspiring yes yes yes, lots and LOTS of quotes from abraham lincoln - they make you think a lot too. unfortuatnely we didn't get much time to look and i dind't get to finish reading the stuff :(

and i took ages in the toilet cos the seats were all dirty so we ended up going late to the bus eheheheh.

YES INDEEDY!