The title is the wording on the 'Do not disturb' notice supplied in our hotel room! We were out for the count by 9.30pm yesterday and resurfaced to a grey Washington morning at around 7.30am today. We had breakfast at the deli opposite and felt like extras in an American film as we perched on high stools at the counter eating toasted bagels and drinking tea from the ubiquitous paper cups. Our plan for the day was to buy passes for the hop on / hop off sightseeing tour on a topless double decker. It was grey all day and threatened rain, which fortunately never quite arrived. Sadly all the pictures are rubbish as the sky was grey, the water looked grey and many of the buildings were greyish. We drove past the Capitol and a selection of the Smithsonian museums and hopped off for the first time to visit the Jefferson monument, the FDR (Roosevelt) monument, the Martin Luther King monument, the memorials for the Korean, Vietnam and second world wars and the Lincoln monument. Back on the bus several stops further on and off to Arlington cemetery to see JFKs grave and the tomb of the unknown soldiers. Then back on the bus to the Pentagon and back into Washington for further sights, including the FBI building - voted ugliest building in the world a few years back (I suspect this was an American poll and most of those voting didn't know many buildings outside the USA - I could make numerous suggestions for worse buildings that it).
Ended the day with a trip to the Air and Space museum, which is open until 7.30pm. We ate out at an 'Irish themed' pub and restaurant, which bore as much resemblance to an Irish pub as I do to Kate Moss (I.e the name was the same - Moss being my maiden name). One more day of culture and then we get back on our travels ready for the business end of the trip. Pictures yesterday were Chris with the liberty bell and the Capitol at night. Today we have monuments - see if you know which ones
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