day 6

continued on said tour. of all days, it had to bloody pour. and this was when everyone got sick, since we were drenched. >.<

saw the Korean and Vietnam war memorial, and also trooped over to the Lincoln memorial where I was thoroughly disappointed since the statue was covered by scaffolding. >.< sigh. The Korean memorial was one of the coolest since it featured 18 soldiers marching towards a flag, and the entire thing was constructed such that the sculptures would reflect the black wall and thus appear as 36 soldiers (since the was was carried out at latitude 36 degrees I think) Also saw the Theodore Roosevelt memorial, which was quite boring IMO *haha* Very modern sculpture, which didn't really appeal to me. However i loved the quotes ont he wall. went on later to see the Smithsonian natural history museum, and saw the hope diamond, i.e. largest blue diamond in the world (I think)

After that was a quick lunch before the long bus ride back to Washington. After chucking our stuff in the hostel, went to meet kiat chuan and J&J and zhihao for dinner since it was kiat’s bday. That was followed up by a jaunt at starbucks, and then small talk over some beer at kiat's room.