Found the White House... 3 times

Today I wore my new FBI shirt that I bought yesterday and another tourist genuinely thought I was an FBI agent or something because we were kinda in front of the J. Edgar Hoover building. He kept being like "Hey, FBI. Hey. Hey, FBI." And I smiled and kept walking, thinking he was kidding but then he looked all confused and stuff. He pointed me out to his friends and stuff. I mean, never mind that I look like a teenager and am hardly dressed in what I assume official agents would be sporting, or anything.

Still, felt pretty cool. But back to the beginning of my day.

So I started at the Museum of Women in the Arts, which was very cool and fascinating. The building was so fancy! I felt like Anastasia in that scene where she goes back to the Catherine Palace and starts singing. So I played that soundtrack on my iPod. Then there was this very cool floor dedicated to women in music who altered history or forwarded the empowered women movement. There was stuff from Diana Ross and the Supremes, Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, Dolly Parton Billie Holliday (WHO IS ACTUALLY A GIRL? DID NOT SEE THAT ONE COMING. Although now I understand the joke from Clueless) and etc but I took less notice of the ones I didn't recognise. But it was the next room that I really enjoyed since it had stuff from concerts or memorable outfits worn by Taylor Swift, Lady GaGa (like her first piano! A replica of her meat dress, one of her sparkly costumes) Britney [from the good years], Xtina, Queen Latifa, Madonna, Liz Phair <- that one got me so excited!, and etc. So awesome.

After that, I went looking for Ford Theatre but got lost due to construction on 10th getting me off track, so I was like 'eh, I'm hungry. Let's call it a day and go home.' So I went back to the hostel, had lunch, looked at the time thinking it nearly 4 or 5.... And it was almost 2pm. What??? So I headed out again, found Ford Theatre and bought a ticket for tomorrow morning. Then decided that because I was near the White House, I should finally get around to seeing that. Decided to forgo looking at my map, which was a good idea because I figured the street numbers counted down to the WH since it's the capital of the capital. HA! NO.

Walked all the way down to 1st st, the whole time thinking to myself how unimpressive and kind of ugly the WH looked in person. Get there, think, 'hey, isn't there supposed to be a fountain?', consult my map and realise I'm 15 blocks away because I walked in the wrong direction. HOORAY. Walk all the way to 15th st and think 'hmmm, still doesn't look that grand. But maybe this is the back'. HA! NO. That is the Treasurey Building. Keep walking and tada! Finally!

"White House" #1

"White House" #2 

Actual White House

I'm lucky I recognise the White House from sci-fi movies where it gets annihilated, because otherwise I may not have gotten this last photo, thinking that that random building at the other end of Pennsylvania Ave was it.