Virginia beach, day 18

Today we went to Vans Warped Tour which is a daily festival with mostly punk rock bands. It goes on throughout the summer in different places in the US and Canada. Back in the day it was one of the places I wanted to be at, mostly because Blink 182, together with most other bands me and my friends listened to, used to play this festival almost every year. Josh got us tickets before we left the UK since he wanted to see a band called Go Radio! and a few others. We were surprised again that people weren't drinking, but considering a beer was 13 dollars I don't blame them. There were only a couple of other bands that we knew about, for example Reel big fish (the funniest and most entertaining band) and The Used. It said it was gonna rain all day but it turned out to be a very hot and sunny day. I have some videos of some of the bands that I will upload later.

For dinner we went to a place near the hotel called Joe's Crab Shack which was a very nice place serving all kinds of seafood. We both had a big pot of crab and lobster. 

Tomorrow we are leaving VA and going south to the coast of North Carolina, staying in camp sites for the next three nights. 

Washington, day 12

On Wednesday we were going to have a museum day but after seeing the International spy museum we found out that most museums close at 5 pm, so we only had time with one. The spy museum was interesting but would have preferred less fiction and more facts. They had a whole section about James Bond, but they had some good sections in there as well. In the beginning you had to pick a new identity and try to remember your new name, age, destination, place of birth etc. for later when you would be tested. This was a measure of how good a spy you would be. I remembered all of mine. Need I say more? ;) 

Since we couldn't go to any more museums that day we decided to go to Georgetown and eat by the river. Georgetown is the oldest part of Washington, even older than the city itself. This is also where John and Jacqueline Kennedy lived before he became president. The little town was pretty with a channel running through it and small cafés and boutiques. We ate by the river in a place that served really nice seafood. On the way home we stopped for some amazing gelato.