A Visit of Washington D.C

Finally, I have time to play in the lovely spring break. I planed to have a visit to D.C in spring break two weeks ago, and I made it this week. After a 5 hours trip in bus, I arrived in D.C at 1 PM this Monday. It is totally different from NYC. No rushing crowd in the street, no skyscrapers, no dirty metro stations, D.C is a more civilized city in my impression. As the capital of the U.S, D.C is not very cosmopolitan but polite. Walking in the street of D.C, you will get a peaceful feeling. All the buildings there are stately and clean like old British gentlemen, all the metro stations are the same-looking, neat and ordered. Everybody stay on the right side when they are on the escalator, so the people who are in a rush can pass them easily.

There is a wide plaza between Congress Building and Washington Monument. The plaza is surrounded by many museums such as Natural History and Space Air. All of them are free to visitors. Due to the terrible windy weather, I just visited only 2 of them, and both of which are interesting.

In the second day, I went to White House and Union Station. I have to say that White House is not very attractive, maybe that is because I am not interested in polity or Bush. Union Station is a great place and it remind me of Grand Central where I just visited weeks ago. Both of them are great stations and have a long history. I kind of think that Union Station is a little more elegant than Grand Central, although I like them equally.