Today we got to Washington D.C. at 10:30 am and parked at Union Station. We walked to the U.S. Botanical Gardens where we spent our day (until 3:00 pm). At the Gardens we saw flowering banana trees in the conservatory. Did you know the banana tree is made up of leaves that haven't opened yet? Or that the flower grows up inside the tree then sprawls over the top and hangs down the outside?
We also saw a cacao tree (the source of cocoa and all things chocolate!) that was fruiting:
We also looked at their collection of over 2,000 orchids, plus their menagerie of desert plants - some were HUGE.
After that we drove to the Jefferson Memorial where we ate a picnic lunch. Then we drove all the way down to South Hill, VA (which is on the Virginia-North Carolina border where we are spending the night. We then ate dinner at Brian's Steakhouse a local restaurant a few blocks away from the hotel.
Tomorrow we have a long drive of 7 hours to make it to Atlanta.
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