Boring day so it must be Sarah blog day. I doubt Alan will have any comments. We didn't do anything today. I will too and they're in blue.
Yes it is one of those sad travelling days. We left the hotel about 9am and headed towards the airport. Firstly we had to fill the car with petrol. You have to pay before you pump here and although Alan has worked that out, he hasn't worked out how to actually get the petrol out of the pump. A second trip in to talk to the attendant and petrol was finally flowing. Well it doesn't help that different places have different ways of making the petrol pump work. Whilst doing that, some guy came up to Alan and gave him a piece of paper. I didn't see what it said but he disposed of it in the bin fairly quickly. There was some hand gesturing going on and the guy dove into the bin to retrieve the piece of paper. I then saw someone else hand the guy money for the piece of paper. The more we stay here, the more we learn. Why should I pay some weirdo for a piece of pink paper with a few words written on it, when he probably found it in a bin in the first place. We got out of there quickly with the guy mumbling something toward us.
We made it to the airport and although there were some check-in difficulties, including the fact that Alan I each had a window seat on either side of the plane, we made it through customs without being manhandled. The woman sitting beside me decided she wanted to move elsewhere so Sarah moved over next to me after all.
A quick two hour flight and we arrived in a slightly cooler but a lot less humid Washington DC. The trip in the shuttle was harrowing with the driver doing 20 miles an hour over the speed limit, driving up on other people intimdating them to move over, and swerving all over the road. I don't think he was too bright. There was a state trooper driving around the speed limit and our driver sped straight past him.
The hotel is nice. The bed and pillows aren't as nice as we had in Orlando but we expected that. NO BED or PILLOWS will ever match what we had there. If I had some room in my suitcase I would now be the proud owner of a couple of new pillows.
We took a walk around the area and discovered the Metro (train) is just over a block from the hotel. Very convenient. We had a late lunch/early dinner at this great place and returned to the hotel.
So that's it. Tomorrow its off to see the sites of DC. There's no photos today because we really didn't have anything to take photos of. I miss roller coasters.
Trivia for the day: The cars around here all have front and back license plates. Everywhere else we've been nobody ever has a front one and plenty don't even have a back one.
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