Trip to North America 27Mar - 10Apr (IV) - Washington D.C.

When I booked the land tour for Washington D.C., all we wanted was a decent hotel near a subway. We got to stay at the Hilton near the Dupont Circle station. The Dupont Circle is pretty far underground and it's a loooong escalator ride up or down.

And when I booked the tour, I didn't even know that it was to be the Cherry Blossoms Festival then. So God blessed us with something we didn't ask for, something that tourists would specially plan for. We took in the sight of the cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin along with the throngs of visitors through various means - via a river cruise, a guided trolley tour and a duck tour.

While in Washington D.C., we saw many of the iconic buildings, including the National Mall, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, the Union Station and the National Cathedral in Georgetown.

We went to the one and only Spy Museum in the world and we also went to Madame Tussauds and met Obama in wax :) and also the Postal Museum.

Lesson learnt: God gives good gifts

God loves us and He wants to give us good gifts. On this visit to Washington D.C, i realised that once again, God gave us more than what we asked for.

For example, the hotel that we stayed at is near the Embassy Row and we walked around the area by foot, we found a farmer's market near the Dupont Circle Station and had Morton's of Chicago's steak and ate the famous Potbelly sandwiches and we also went to church on Palm Sunday - the St Margaret's Anglican Church near the hotel!

And the event that capped it all at Washington D.C. is missing our scheduled duck tour by a few minutes due to the bad traffic conditions caused by the crowds and we were sorely disappointed.

The next day, we happened to be at the Main Office of the Duck Tour Company and I explained to the lady on duty how we missed our duck tour the previous day and she told me that they had just opened a new tour at 4pm that day and asked if we would like to be on it. And we were the first two passengers booked for that tour! What can I say?

God is really good!