boo!

i know i said i wouldn't be posting til next week except i wanted to check my emails and i have a 30 minute minimum so i want to get my full $3 worth. anyway! d.c! so freaking hot. i should have checked the paper for the temps instead of email lauren on monday and find out from her because the temp has gone up 10 degrees than what was predicted on monday. and people who used to laugh and make jokes about me never being able to be a backpacker, well too bloody right. hostels aren't really my thing. but apart from that boring stuff, i've seen so mcuh! we were walking around for hours yesterday, just strolling and finding stuff, so we first set out for the white house, which is SO white. and pretty big. i always knew it was big, but i don't know what else to say about it because we've all seen it before and it's just like the movies and the tv shows and all the rest of it. then we walked down to the washington monument (big giant triangle point in the sky, very impressive). from there we went over to the world war 2 memorial (couldn't find australia anywhere) and checked that out, very nice, but so many people around. we walked the length of the reflecting pool (remember forrest gump and the sene where he's talking in front of the massive rally and suddenly jenny is yelling 'forrest' and running through that pond?? well that's the reflecting pool), it was pretty gross, full of sludge and not really giving off the vibe that you could reflect there... at the top of that is the lincoln memorial. by this time we could manage the steps so we sat down the bottom and looked, i will go back up there at some point before i go because i'd love to see it up close.
because it's the long weekend people are everywhere so some of the pictures aren't as perfect as they can be.
today we're off to arlington cemetry for a ceremony and off to explore it. i'm VERY excited about that. i also need to go to a clothes shop of some type and buy another t-shirt as i came with clothes for more mild weather...
anyway, better go, jas and i are late to meet lauren and i still have 8 minutes left on here, i'll have to give them away.
oh and one more thing, i flew united yesterday, WAY better than american. so much leg room, so much so i didn't use it all no matter how hard i tried, short of sliding down my seat so my head was on the bum part. so if you are ever debating which one to fly, i say united, a bigger plane and more leg room!
love ya