The Eastern shore of the US has been "heating up" for the last couple of days and despite the heat warning in effect for our region, we decided to go to Washington DC nevertheless..our last visit had been in October 2009, partly pleasure and partly business as we visited the Canadian Embassy for administrative issues...

We left Annapolis at 7h30 with the "commuter's Dillon's bus" and found ourselves on Constitution avenue just in time for a bagel & coffee breakfast before our tour of the Smithsonian's. With such great museums, days are too short...we chose to go the the Air and Space Museum and took the 90 minutes tour... The guide was entertaining and knowledgeable and we left with a better understanding of the expositions.

We ventured outside despite the amazing heat and toured very rapidly (we had been here on a previous visit) the Sculpture gardens...