Good Friday 2010

It's Friday morning, it is sunny and CsLaKoNaS is at school. He is bored and he calls me. We decide to go for a walk to the Mall...

So, here we are! We have parked our car and start walking in this wonderful neighborhood. A squirrel on a tree is our first photo (then we loved them).

This neighborhood is really nice... There are only row-houses and all of them have gardens. So many colors... I've just loved it!

After half an hour walking, we are close to the Capitol.

The gardens there are really nice and the colors of the tulips wonderful!

We go closer to the Capitol and take some pictures.

And the other side of the Capitol, the one looking at the Washington Monument:




Here is how the Capitol sees the Washington Monument

and how the Washington Monument sees the Capitol



There is a guy on his horse standing in front of the Capitol, but I have no idea who he is...

Now we are just getting away from the Capitol looking for some place to drink our coffee and have some rest.

We have finished our coffee and it is time to eat something. However, CsLaKoNaS decided to feed this little squirrel and not me!


The result? It bit him! And we spent the evening not at a nice restaurant but at the hospital having some test...

What we got from that walk one year ago? DO NOT FEED WILD ANIMALS!

Have a nice afternoon! :)

Our first walk in D.C.

It seems that CsLaKoNaS will not post anything else here...
I was waiting him to post our first walk in D.C. I was waiting for three months...
So, I am writing this post on my own. :p

Here we are! This is our first walk in Washington D.C. together...
We have just got out of the Federal Triangle metro station.


This is the first picture I took. It is just the building of SunTrust Bank, but I liked it.


This is the US Treasury Building. The building is right next to the White House, and once housed the Department of Justice.


The statue you see is Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury.

This is one of the statues in Lafayette Square:

He is Marquis de Lafayette, a French aristocrat who came over to serve in General Washington's army in the American Revolutionary War and became a very close lifelong friend of George Washington.

I think that everyone knows what the next photo is. It is the White House. Don't try, you can see neither Barack nor Michelle.


This is an old office building near White House. It really looks like a dollhouse...


This is the statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko in Lafayette Square. He is a national hero in Poland, Lithuania, the United States and Belarus.


The Renwick Gallery, a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum:


The next statue is the First Division Monument and commemorates those who died while serving in the 1st Infantry Division of the US Army.


And this is the back side of the White House with the famous oval office ;)


Just a fountain. Okay CS, I like taking stupid photos... What's your problem? :p


The next photo is the Washington Monument, the obelisk.

The obelisk and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
Every single time that CsLaKoNaS sees this photo, he is thinking of the scene in the Forrest Gump movie.


and here is Lincoln looking at his reflecting pool...


That's enough with the monuments, now a taste of the capital's nature...



These were some photos of our first walk in D.C.
Now, one year and a half later, we live in D.C. together... :)

Have a good night and take care....


PS: CsLaKoNaS will upload soon some photos of our visit in New York City (I will make him do so).

The National Zoo (part II)

Hello everybody,

Did you miss us ? We surely did! We continue our day at the National Zoo 2 months after the first entry (click here) (!!!) OK one does not to spend THAT much time there but it is really awesome. Recently we heared that there is a bunch of new arrivals at the zoo...these include elephants, camels, lions and giraffes... It's a pity we didn't find see any of them back in December, but it was the under-construction and renovation period...

Anyway what we saw was spectacular enough. We finish our visit with this entry.

Lets get away from the fairy's small mammals :

and meet some more interesting living beings.....

To begin with some impressive, the American Alligator (just the eye, he was hidden):
Coral community:
Coral Reef community:
Sea-stars:
Colorful Anemones:
a different kind of crabs:
Giant Octopus:
Nautilus:
a huge Lobster:
Gila monster:
Veiled chameleon:
Green anaconda:Cuban crocodile:
Inland Bearded Dragon:
Grand Cayman Iguana:

Sumatran Tiger:
OK the last one was kind of blurred but hey...it's CsLaKoNaS who's shooting!

We will see you soon !