Tuesday, July 15, 2008

This is the day we learn to travel the bus and metro system in Washington D.C. area. We are a little intimidated by the whole sound of traversing the system. Luckily when we board the bus at the RV park we find a couple who had gone into D.C. the day before and they helped us find our way. We went from the bus station to the metro station. When we boarded the train we were told how to find the transfer for our return trip, how to get off from the green train and find the red train and take it to Union Station. WE did all right because we got to where we needed to go and purchase tickets for the Grey Line tour. We opted for the land/boat tour of the area.

This is really cool, we are on a double decker open topped bus. We figure that is a great way to be able to snap our photos. And snap photos is what Nancy did. Tom took a few but Nancy just would not let her camera sit still for long. When we had traveled into D.C. on Sunday we did not know all that we had seen, but on the bus tour we found out just what we had seen, and a lot more.

We traveled to the Smithsoian Institution, Air and Space Museum. The Smithsoian is really a lot of different museums, in many buildings. We stopped and took a look see before returning to the tour bus.

Then we had to travel the route again as we needed to get off in Georgetown for our boat ride down the Potomac. From our many years of boating, we know just how different a city can look from the water vs. the land. So, we did enjoy our boat ride. We got to see Watergate, and the Kennedy Center for the Arts from the water.

When we got off the boat it was a long two city blocks uphill to catch our bus. I ran on ahead hopefully so we would not have a long wait to catch the bus. Good thing I did, as the bus was just ready to leave the stop, but waited for us and about 10 others on the tour.

When we returned to Union Station we were on our own to find our way back on the metro/bus system. Thank goodness we paid special attention to our friends earlier in the day as we had no trouble catching the red line and changing onto the green line and then the bus back to Cherry Hill RV park.