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All is well here, except for having the flu fairly badly now, but I'm guessing it's my own fault since each night consists of drinking my own weight in alcohol and eating again then!! and only getting 4 hours or so of sleep a night. Went to the Chemist and got some stuff though so hopefully it will help.
Through to Washington D.C
Tav2006-01-13 21:12:08
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All is well here, except for having the flu fairly badly now, but I'm guessing it's my own fault since each night consists of drinking my own weight in alcohol and eating again then!! and only getting 4 hours or so of sleep a night. Went to the Chemist and got some stuff though so hopefully it will help.
Nat and I went for a jog this morning, it wasn’t great but it was a start!
We travelled through Virginia on the way to D.C. Then it was onto Washington where we are now. We drove past the Pentagon, and it is massive!! They say that you could fit one of the US states in it and it would still only take up 1/5 of it!!
Once we arrived we went and did a night city tour and saw the Arlington National Cemetery which is home to all of the veteran graves including the Kennedy’s Gravesites and Challenger Memorial. We watched the changing of the Guard of the Unknown Soldiers grave - it’s very ceremonial and the men who guard it think of this as an honour and a privilege.
It is a very moving place and the white crosses stretch for as
far as the eye can see - there is activity all around as it is Memorial Day in a couple of day’s time. There are Servicemen and Ex-Servicemen everywhere and a mass amount of Harley bikes in town. We went and visited the other specific memorials for World Wars 1 and 2, Vietnam and Korea.
We also went to the Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Roosevelt Memorial and the Washington Monument. We were walking past the body of water at the same angle as the movie and I was like ‘hey that’s out of Forrest Gump!!! Where he gives the speech whilst in uniform and Jenny runs out across the water’. We also saw the Capitol Building but it was getting very dark and I wanted to see some of the things again in the day light.
We went out to a club called Polyester
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