I arrived in DC this morning at about 6:00 am. The second flight was… bumpy. They call those things “airbuses” for a reason. Since the airlines no longer give you food (you have to pay $5 if you want to eat, no matter how long your flight is), I was really, really hungry by the time I got to my hotel, which fortunately has a free continental breakfast.

I didn’t do that much today. I wanted to go to a mall, but the free hotel shuttle guy said the nearest hotel was outside the range he was allowed to drive. I went to a restaurant. Exciting, I know.

As a side note, my sleep schedule seems to have adjusted reasonably well, but my stomach has not. I get hungry at odd hours.

 Impressions so far: It’s really… flat. I don’t see any mountains nearby. But it’s pretty, and the fact that it was cloudy all day made it seem almost surreal. The buildings have an interesting architecture, very “historic” feeling, which makes sense considering this is an historic area. Not yet adjusted to the cold.

I want to take some pictures every day and post them here. Since I haven’t accomplished very much today, I’ll mostly just post pictures of my hotel room.

 NOTE: At this time I don’t feel like scaling down my pictures, which are too large to upload here. I’ll post them to a flickr account in a bit and add a link.

 UPDATE: Link