NYC to Washington DC

Tuesday

On our final night in NYC, we had a girls night out on Broadway. The girls chose the Musical “Frozen” and we were not disappointed. As we walked up to the St James Theatre, Claire stopped to give a police horse a pat and then we found our seats, three rows from the front.

From the moment it started we were all entranced. Claire sang along with many of the songs, Lilly shed a tear and we were amazed by the visual effects. Both girls had smiles a mile wide as the finale was sang and snow started falling from the ceiling. What an experience for Lilly’s first ever Musical and to see a production that had only been open for less than a week on Broadway.

(P- New York comes to a close, the more I explored the more I found that interested me. We tried the street food ( not as exciting as NYs street food reputation led me to believe). The Pizza – better than expected! Found a 50’s Diner – food was awesome and of course we had to relive a little of Forest Gump at the Bubba Gump theme restaurant loaded with verses and sayings from the movie! Central Park needs to be seen and explored again when spring trees, grass and flowers have woken from their winter dormancy. Times Square was almost impossible to describe and I had to go back several times to absorb the ever changing view. The smiles and intrigue on the kids faces as they look, absorb, comment and ask questions about this huge city certainly brings a smile to mine!

Wednesday

This morning we were packed up and out the door by 8 o’clock for a brisk 10 block walk up to Penn Station, NY. We looked quite a sight, single file, all trailing a case (or 2), heading down 10th Avenue. We made it to Penn Station with plenty of time to spare. We were catching the train down to Washington about four hours ride away. Another first for the kids and one adult, Tristram, who haven’t done train rides before. Joanne was only about 7 when she did this sort of train ride, so today bought back lots of memories for her. Views from the train are quite different. Back yards, factories, tunnels, rubbish, graffiti etc. Claire says “mum look more wall to wall houses”. (Terrace houses).

We arrived at Washington, DC, Union Station and regrouped ready to walk to our accommodation. (T – Yet again in single file numbered off)

Union Station is a pretty Magnificent Building and still as amazing today as when I first saw it in 2000. (Ross and Eileen you should remember this place). As we exited Union station the first sight we see is the Capitol Building on Capitol Hill where the American parliament meets. We then walked another 10 blocks to our accommodation which turns out to be one of those “wall to wall” houses!

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