Rain Rain Go away... little Mohan wants to play

Awriiiight.

Today.. we were up by 5:30 am as we had to catch a 7 am train to downtown Washington DC. We got there... by 8:30 and just strolled around.. taking pictures ... seeing BIIIG buildings. Somehow..I believe, Americans have an obsession with BIG. I mean.. there's nothing wrong with that... but it still is funny. It IS a big country.. with a lot of resources..so I guess.. BIG makes sense.

After walking around capitol hill... and seeing a li'l bit of the big buildings.. we went into the Smithsonian Air and Space museum. It came highly recommended by a bunch of ppl (Including a nice hiker guy we met yesterday who had been hiking from Maine for the past 2.5 months.. and plans to hike till Georgia and he gets there in around 1.5 months. Simply amazed me ... walking cross country for 4 months... through mountains.. living in the wilderness .. all alone. He was following the Appalachian trail. We also met a father-son duo who were doing a bit of hiking)

Anywayz... enough digression. I believe I belong to the Vaatha type of ppl as per Ayurveda (The ancient Indian medical system)... and basically the vaatha type of people are very fickle... very energetic.. but they cannot stick with anything. Changing thoughts.. new ideas... is what makes them exciting.) You could google it up.. am too tired (And not at all used to this computer...). Sheesh..I was digressing again. Well.. we walked arouuuund the museum till late afternoon by which time we were starving. So...we go to the McDonalds in the museum... which was toooooo expensive for us. So..we walked out eating some snacks that Vamsi's aunt had made for us (Muruku as we call it in telugu.. slightly spicy strips of fried flour). We walked and walked... and walked... and Clive had decided to eat Chinese food... so we walked to China town.. and ate at some crappy restaurant with rude waitresses. Well... thats big city I guess.. and what we expect from a cheap restaurant.

Well.. after that we walked to the White House ... and took pics and sat around... and then it started raining. And raining. AND Raining. Luckily .. we had umbrellae (plural?) which werent tooo effective but helped to an extent. We just walked back to the railway station all the way across town (20-30 blocks..!!) .. with wind.. and drizzle.. and rain.. and all..hoping to catch a 4:55pm train. Unfortunately or fortunately... we reached the station exactly at 5pm. So... we just got some food for carry out and sat in the next train (5:35pm).... and we sat.. and we sat... and then we heard the announcement which made ppl go Uh-Oh. "Houston..we have a problem". Alright alright.. they didnt say that... but they basically told us some signalling system had failed.. and if we had alternate means of transport...to take them. Well..we didnt. So.. we waited.. and the trip ended up taking a full 3 hrs. Well we're home now... well rested (Having slept on the train) and happy. Onto having more fun tomorrow.

Gniite and sweetest of nightmares ppl.
Bai baii