Washington, DC - Day 6

Wake up: 7:45am
Breakfast: 9:30am
Metro: 10:20am
Newseum: 11:00am

The day has begun...
The Newseum was interesting...the first 3 hrs, the next hr and a half...not so much. We decided to skip having lunch there and have an early dinner (though that didn't happen either) and have a snack and drink at the newseum. At 4:30pm it started raining...and i mean real rain like it does back home. By 4:50 it had slacked off enough for us to head out, so we did. The original plan of the day was to go to Twilight Tattoo at 7:00pm but because of the rain that was cancelled so instead we went to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. We got there at 5 and the museum closed at 7:30 so we already knew we wouldn't have time to do the whole thing. We hit the Ocean Exhibit and of course the Gems to see the Hope Diamond (which I personally think is rather ugly, btw) and then decided to head out about 6:30 in search of some dinner (again, not exactly early). Unfortunately, it was raining...no, pouring...so we hung out in the entry of the museum for a while til it slacked off enough to go in search of sustenance (since we had no clue of where we were going...all we knew was Evan wanted non-American, non-home, non-chain food...preferably Thai). So we walked and walked through the rain and wind and people (yes, there were still quite a few people out despite the rain) and eventually ended up at Kanlaya which happened to be a Thai restaurant obviously frequented by locals so we went in. That was the best food everrrrrrrrrr. It may have been because we were do hungry but it really was good. Evan and I had fried rice, mine with pork, his with chicken. Mom had some sort of veggie dumpling thingy, and Dad had Thai Traditional Panang. Combine the sweet Thai soy sauce mom had with hers with my fried rice...omg!! Definitely my new favorite!! Sooo tired. Back to the Metro to head for the hotel. But first, another stop at the 7-11 for drinks and Milano cookies (cuz I wanted chocolate). Now, we're back at the hotel and it's raining outside...again.

Who knows what we're doing tomorrow...later.