Things you never knew about pillows (and never felt you needed to ask)

This is quite a posh place we are staying in (accidentally I hasten to add), which we have deduced from the fact that not only does our room have only one light bulb not working but also a shower that doesn't need a degree in advanced engineering to operate. The clincher though is the presence of a pillow menu! Each bed has 4 different pillows, the pillow menu describes 6 different types of pillow, none of the pillows are labelled. I won't bore you with the full descriptions but there are down feather pillows, sound pillows, incorporating speakers so you can plug in your 'device' and play yourself a lullaby(!!!???), hypoallergenic pillows (to counteract your reaction to the down pillows), magnetic therapy pillows, buckwheat pillows and Swedish memory pillows. I apparently have a seventh variation - bloody uncomfortable pillow!!!   Sadly we have arrived too late for International Pillow Fight day, held annually at DuPont circle in the posh area of DC - I would have been betting on the Buckwheat pillow myself.

Anyway, today started off warm, wet and humid, very overcast and depressing. We started with a tour of the Capitol building, or a small part thereof and then the Library of Congress, where you go through security on the way our rather than the way in! By the time we emerged the sun was out and it was scorching hot. We walked 

down to the White House, had lunch in a shady square and then hopped back on the open top bus to see Georgetown and other areas of DC not covered yesterday. As you will see from one of the photos the sun didn't shine all day. After this Chris wanted a return visit to the Air and Space museum, so I left him there and wandered back through the parks, wrote some postcards, had a shower and am now waiting for him to reappear.

One thing we haven't managed to do is take a ride on the equivalent of a Boris bike. I was rather hoping they would be called 'Barack bikes' or (even better) 'Bama Bikes', but rather boringly they are just bike share rentals. I don't think poking fun at politicians is quite the national sport it is back home.

Tomorrow we head to Virginia to rebuild the bikes and start the holiday proper. Pictures are of The White House and the delights of sight-seeing in the rain