Well, this is my last round of photos from my summer trip before I have to go back to regular blogging (it’s been so long). Anyways, our last stop on our little trip before we prepared ourselves for the long way home was Washington, D.C. We only spent the afternoon so we didn’t get to see much, but my sister and I had traveled there before, during which we also went inside the Smithsonian Castle and the National Museum of Natural History. Because of the heat, we opted to stay behind while my parents went to visit the Lincoln, Vietnam and Korean memorials, which we had also seen before. So, unfortunately, there are no photos of those!

I really love Washington, although I didn’t think much of it before I visited it for the first time. It’s a beautiful city, with so much to see, and I would love to go back to do a proper visit, where I can finally visit the National Museum of American History, the National Gallery of Art, as well as the National Crime Museum, and the International Museum of Espionage, among other things. It’s a fantastic city, especially for tourists!

Unfortunately, we only spent two days in New York City, after which we packed up on our way to a condo my dad rented in Williamsburg, Virginia. We spent some time shopping and visiting the colonial areas, but we spent the last two days of our visit there at the beach because of the heat. Since my sister and I had been there a couple of years earlier we didn’t bother taking any pictures. I don’t have any photos of the colonial areas we visited, and most of the photos I took at the beach were of my brother. Also, it may not be appear this way in the photos, but it was extremely hot and sunny! Perfect beach weather, and I already miss it.

While our first day in New York dealt mostly with checking out Times Square and soaking up the city’s energy, our second day was mostly spent trying to take in a few sights. Unfortunately, because of the blazing heat, we weren’t able to see much. We spent most of our day in Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And we then spent the evening at our chosen Broadway show In the Heights.

First stop: The box office for our Broadway Show.This is the poster found outside.

The M&Ms store. We went in mostly for the air conditioning.

I know I promised that I’d post pictures a few days ago, but I once again got lazy and procrastinated transferring my photos from my camera onto my laptop. I actually decided to do it yesterday, but I couldn’t find my memory card and was in a little bit of a panic because I thought maybe I’d vacuumed it by mistake. It turned out that my father had borrowed it to put the photos onto his computer, so I finally got it back. Anyways, here are some of the photos that I took on my first day of vacation, which was spent in New York City. This was after an eight hour long car ride, so we didn’t do much except explore the city, but the walk itself was amazing.

The highlight of the evening was definitely the walk through Times Square. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a street corner that it that illuminated. It looked just like on tv, with the Broadway and television ads lighting up the whole street.