Sunday fun!

A good nights sleep is enough to make any little pumpkin excited! But the fact that it is Halloween and she gets to be a proper pumpkin in a costume all day made Katy very happy!

First was a spot of swimming in the pool. This time she even sampled the hot tub (don't worry - not that hot!) after smiling her way around the colder main pool.

Then buffet breakfast! Well we had to get our moneys worth!

Katy may have been ready for trick and treatibg already, but before pumpkin revelry, it was time to do a spot of sight seeing!

Directly opposite the hotel but the other side of the railway and metro lines, (did we tell u that our room is great for train spotting!) is the tall tower of the George Washington Masonic monument. A monument overlooking Alexandria, commemorating George Washington, the first president of the USA and a masonic worshipful master initiated in Fredricksburg in 1752. It's tower is 333ft tall but we didn't get to go up it today. We just pushed Katy to the top of the hill. Still a great view. We could see the Capitol building and Washington's monument back in DC. They seem so far apart! And we walked between them twice!!

I saw a sign that prooves that we shouldn't go running - it's prohibited! (tee hee - ok so just prohibited on the Masonic grounds, but I liked the sign)

After savouring the view, we walked back down king street to hotel monaco. This had been one of our possible staying locations but were we are is very nice.

(following a lady who appeared to have completed the marine Corp marathon that was the main event in DC today.)

Now the reason we were going to hotel monaco? We were off to meet up with a lovely expat call Marcia. On our first day in DC we had found ourselves in Godiva chocolate at union station, (looking for a phone but finding chocolate covered strawberries -yum), when marcia walked in and heard us talking. We got chatting and ended up exchanging numbers and then arranging to do Sunday brunch. She lives in Alexandria so hotel Monaco was the perfect choice.

Our Clam chowder and fish cakes were a bit slow coming but they redeemed themselves with the bottomless memosia cocktails! Katy stuck to her milk! We chatted for ages. But finally time to part company after a lovely lunch.