Adventure to the White House

As you are aware, if you read my last post this weekend I wanted to get to the White House! Granted, this was not for the tour or anything, just to see the outside and all of that stuff. Well on Saturday in mid-afternoon after an adventure to the grocery store to buy some much needed food, Burke and I headed out to find the White House. Now this should have been relatively easy considering I had directions....


So we took the Metro out to Farragut West, which the internet informed me was the closest Metro stop to the White House. This part was correct, it was the other directions that got us into trouble. We were wandering around for about 25 minutes, when we stumbled upon the National Geographic Museum, we figured, hey it's nice out and still relatively early, let's see what it's like. We went through the two exhibits they had running, one was on the Samurai culture of Japan, and the other was all about the Titanic. Both were extremely interesting and informative. We even got to see a woman perform the traditional music of Japan on a koto (also known as the Japanese Zither). Sadly in the Samurai exhibit we were not allowed to take any photos so I cannot share those with you. But on my facebook page there are some from the Titanic exhibit for those interested. After this we decided to really try and find the White House.


Yet again we ran into some trouble, we just started wandering around and passed by some cool embassies, Peru, Chile, Trinidad and Tobago, and even Uzbekistan (which Burke stepped foot in, officially....without a passport!). After this Burke was a little tired from all the walking as was I by this point, so he decided to see if his phone would give us directions. It did, and it was to the correct location so we finally found the White House. (We later discovered that my directions were like backward, instead of turning right on a street it would have us turn left.) I'm not really sure how that worked out, but oh well. We found the White House! And I got a few photos of it, and luckily it was a nice day outside so even though we were a little hot, it was not too humid.


As for today, well I'm not sure what it was, I woke up and was feeling under the weather so sadly I did not get to adventure today, which I am extremely disappointed about. Although I did do some research for a bunch of random things, and made a list of things that I want to get to here in the near future, most notably I want to get to the Chinese Embassy, so that I can "go to China" before I really go to China. Some people may call this lame, but I think it's really cool that technically by stepping onto the ground of an embassy you are in their country. Anyways that's all for now, luckily I am feeling a little better, and tomorrow I have programming. So I'll keep you all updated!