Good morning world, I had an excellent sleep! Emily slept well to and Daniëlle had some tiny challenges as in tiny feet, tiny hands making gigantic movements! It’s always an adventure to sleep in the same bed as your toddler!

At 8:45am we left the hotel walking with Emily in a stroller to Crystal City Station where we purchased our Smartrip passes for today. We waited for the next metro to come to go to L’Enfant Plaza, this is one of the closest metro stations near the National Mall.

During the trip we also entered State no. 6, the District of Columbia!

The National Mall and the surrounding area include some of the most iconic sculptures, memorials and museums. We’ve only visited the outdoor ones as we had beautiful weather today with 31 Celsius and beautiful blue skies. In order of appearance in below pictures: The National Monument, the World War II Monument, the Lincoln Memorial Reflection Pool and the Lincoln Memorial with some pictures of Emily in and out of her stroller in between.

From old Abe we continued our stroll through the Capitol towards the house of Donald & Melania Trump. It’s much smaller as I expected.

Emily was exhausted after we had a short break/water/ice tea stop at a Starbucks nearby the White House and she slept within 2 blocks from there. She continued sleeping for about an hour while we walked along the Capital Building and some other landmarks.

Emily woke up when we entered the second elevator in L’Enfant Plaza Station where we took the yellow line metro back to Crystal City.

At 4pm we got back in our hotel we wanted to visit the pool but this is only open seasonally which means means June, July and August… Since Emily was still a bit tired we decided to take it easy for a couple hours and while Emily watched Disney Junior we found out that the hotel charged a very high amount of $s to our credit card for whatever reason.

Needless to say I went down to the reception and after a some explaining to the manager the charge was reversed quickly. But that would still leave us with a foreign exchange conversion fee from our bank…to be continued!

At 5:30pm we left on a mission for ice-cream! And we were successful at the Coldstone Creamery. Somehow we also are excited to go and order our ice-cream or milkshake but it’s always a little but of an disappointment either due to the service (this time) or the not so tasteful treat as I had imagined (also this time).

Now it was time to go back to our room for a bath and our bed! On our way in the lobby the story continued, we got a full night refunded although we did not hear this from the manager as he wasn’t available but it was in the system. Let’s see if this is still the case tomorrow…

While Emily is on bathing I’m finishing up the blog and I’m so tired I almost fall a sleep while writing and it is only 7:30pm…

Tomorrow we have the longest drive of the trip planned and Emily is already excited to get back in the car!