Washington DC 14-05-06

I had decided to go to washington for the weekend ALONE as mohit had asked his friend of his to fly down to boston.He was undecided till the 11th hr, n fnally it was his friend's turn to ditch him n when his possibility of flying down to miami also failed, he decided to join me to washington :( So, I had to do away with the "solitude rocks!!" flag :)) n be content with "It takes 2 to tango " :D..prob i have to reserve tat as blog header for some later use in india :D
( pic above) was our first glimpse of Capitol Hill..tat we mistook it as white house is a diff thing :) gud atleast tat i found it in the afternoon, else u wud have read my comment as "white house" beneath the next pic :D

As we neared
Amost near
n finally :) in front of Capitol Hill
There was a huuuuuuge queue as it was a free tour..we stood in the line for almost 1/2 n hr only to get a ticket specifing the entry time as 11.30..gosh!!! Its anybodys guess wot we did after tat :)
So many forlorn faces !!
Capitol Hill (we were still thinking tat it was white house as we clicked this one :))
There was a protest going on for the casualties of iraq war..They had lined the shoes of marines,army men n civilians dead in the war together..

Hope Bush hears the far cries!!!

(above) Washington Monument
The Pentagon...

ufff!!! This was the place over a bridge from where we had our first n last glimpse of pentagon..We were allowed to walk in but photography was prohibited in the premises...I thot as it was hardly any security arnd i wud click a few close ones ..but there came a NYPD lady with a frame of Karnam malleshwari :(( holy shit!! i have seen them only in films :(( She deleted all the snaps n the best was tat the first picture "karnam" cud lay hand on was a snap of a "no photography board"..hahahahaha ..My thadiness cud hav bought me todays' dinner in Washington cell :) Anyways,As usual talked my way through!!

US Treasury..
The REAL White House..There was a barricade put up some gud 1 mile before the building..

Wot r zoom cameras for ;)

Lincoln Memorial

We were down n out by the time we reached lincoln memorial..we didnt have it in us to even carry ourselves to the union station..finally managed to drag ourselves n reach for the bus in the last 10 mins. ufff!!! tat was my washington trip!! A bit of needless adventure n lots of walking as usual..