Labor Day Weekend Trip
For Labor Day, the Boy and I did a Chinese bus tour to Philadelphia, Virginia and DC. Normally, I hate bus tours because you spend more time on the bus than anywhere else, and I don't like the time constraints. But considering that we don't have a working car, insurance, or a sense of direction (well, actually the Boy does), the bus tour made perfect sense. Also, the crazy gas prices ($3.19 is the cheapest gas price I saw all weekend long!) made the Chinese tour look even better.
We all met in Chinatown at 8:30AM on Saturday morning. The first stop was to see the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall and other nearby historical sites in Philadelphia. We drove through New Jersey to get to the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia and had been in three states all in the same time it would take to drive from PV to Irvine.
After taking a few quick pictures and walking around various historical buildings, we were off to Delaware for lunch. Of course, the tour dropped us off to a Chinese buffet with only one fast food restaurant as an alternate choice. We figured we'd be eating crappy Chinese food for the next couple of meals, so we went to WaWa's instead (convenience food mart) and got snacks and quick bites.
Next, we were off to Virginia to visit the Shenandoah Caverns. That was cool! We were in the caves for about 45 minutes and got to see all of the rock formations. My favorite was the famous "Bacon" formations . They literally looked like huge slabs of bacon hanging from the ceilings and walls.
This was it for Day 1 sightseeing. We went to Maryland afterwards for dinner at a Chinese restaurant (the food was so bad that people were hungry and complaining) and then to the hotel to get to bed early (10PM). Wake up call for the next day was 5:30AM.
The next day, we saw all of the sites at Washington DC: Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam War Memorial, Korean War Memorial, Washington Monument, Capitol Hill, White House (outside), the Air & Space Museum and the Museum of Natural Sciences. The gemology exhibit at the Museum of Natural Sciences was really cool! They had the Hope Diamond (largest blue diamond in the world with a long, interesting history) on display along with a lot of other famous jewels.
After all of this, we drove to Baltimore to see a famous submarine and walk along a harbor before going back to the city.
We all met in Chinatown at 8:30AM on Saturday morning. The first stop was to see the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall and other nearby historical sites in Philadelphia. We drove through New Jersey to get to the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia and had been in three states all in the same time it would take to drive from PV to Irvine.
After taking a few quick pictures and walking around various historical buildings, we were off to Delaware for lunch. Of course, the tour dropped us off to a Chinese buffet with only one fast food restaurant as an alternate choice. We figured we'd be eating crappy Chinese food for the next couple of meals, so we went to WaWa's instead (convenience food mart) and got snacks and quick bites.
Next, we were off to Virginia to visit the Shenandoah Caverns. That was cool! We were in the caves for about 45 minutes and got to see all of the rock formations. My favorite was the famous "Bacon" formations . They literally looked like huge slabs of bacon hanging from the ceilings and walls.
This was it for Day 1 sightseeing. We went to Maryland afterwards for dinner at a Chinese restaurant (the food was so bad that people were hungry and complaining) and then to the hotel to get to bed early (10PM). Wake up call for the next day was 5:30AM.
The next day, we saw all of the sites at Washington DC: Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam War Memorial, Korean War Memorial, Washington Monument, Capitol Hill, White House (outside), the Air & Space Museum and the Museum of Natural Sciences. The gemology exhibit at the Museum of Natural Sciences was really cool! They had the Hope Diamond (largest blue diamond in the world with a long, interesting history) on display along with a lot of other famous jewels.
After all of this, we drove to Baltimore to see a famous submarine and walk along a harbor before going back to the city.
posted by LANYTransplant at 2:12 PM
2 Comments:
wow...you did the chinese touristy thing! amazing! what will happen to the americanized girl that i once knew? ") j/k. i'll talk to you in a couple weeks when i get back!
btw, i'm just really jealous...have never done the east coast tour before. i've seen boston and nyc, briefly.
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