Butt paste!

Amazing the names that the yanks call some everyday items..... We popped into a drug store and happened to peruse the baby isle. What a great name!!!

Outside at the mall

Not content with the vast number of shops inside at pentagon mall, we headed out to pentagon row, an esplanade of shops just outside.

Complete with ice rink, city bike share park, and a great outdoor style shop that we managed to spend more than an hour in!

More trains.

The metro is so convenient. All of it accessible via stroller or wheelchair, unlike the tube at home. but we have now mastered going down escalators with the push chair (I think going up might be s bit more tricky!!)

Stu was in his element at the back of the train. He could watch tge tracks wizz away behind us!! Katy just thought all the passengers were fair game to smile at. I think she has a new game in her head that she stares at someone with her cutest vacant look until they give in and talk to her, then she breaks out the torpedo of her adorable smile! Then she gets the 'oh, my gaaaad, wat adorable cheeks!!'

Like I've said before the hotel is well situated for train spotters. We can see the metro and Amtrak lines from our window. Love the double chimes of the rail horns! But they arn't loud enough to be a problem.

Last but not least it was bath for Katy then happy hour (well two hours!) in the hotel atrium. Great barman called Richard.

We've decided not to head into town for a meal as we really fed our faces at lunchtime. Off to the considerably closer whole foods extraordinary supermarket nearby, to get a snack and take it back to our room (or should I say suite!!)

Taco bell

A blast from the past! We are at the mall today near the pentagon and I just couldn't resist taco bell for lunch!!

Beef burrito, pintos and cheese and fire hot border sauce. All washed down with mountain dew!

Extremely bad for me but very yum and brought back memories of the drive thru on the I95 from my Atlanta days! At least I'm only eating it once, and staying here just a week. (wish it was longer tho, having a great time!)

Shopping!!

Off on our last full day of adventures and at last Katy and mummy preside daddy that we need to go to a mall that contains shops not monuments!!

4 stops up on the yellow train metro to pentagon city and mall. Katy likes the trains when they aren't busy!

A big of shopping for daddy in tge apple store if course, a few clothes for me and lots if cool outfits from Macys for Katy!!

All posted in the wrong order!

We have been out of wifi for a couple of days. It appears that sat and Sunday emails to blog have got posted in the wrong order!

We went to eastern Market sat morning then kings street Alexandria. Then halloween costumes Sunday of course!

Opps!

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Been a busy day!

With all good intentions of watching a horror movie on Halloween, Stuey fell asleep on the sofa. I dozed off watching Forrest Gump by Washington's reflection pool, in the bedroom, and Katy just dreamt of all the fun things she had seen all day.