Tennesse and onwards

Hey everyone
Feels like we are just getting into the real traveling thing now we are about to get rid of the car. My legs are feeling it after a day walking round DC. The road up here was interesting. Stopped at the Jack Daniels distillery (did I already tell you about that?) anyways, great place, sooo interesting. They let you see all the corn mash and the coals they filter the whiskey through.
After that we headed up to the smokey mountians for a wee bit of a break along the way. We shouted ourselves to a night in a log cabin in the mountains. We loved it there, our cabin had a loft and a basement, a heart shaped spa bath and a hot tub on the deck overlooking the mountains. Andrew made me a proper dinner with lots of vegges (yum) and pancakes for breakfast in the morning. Very nice experience!! The next day we decided to take life a bit slower and headed onto a road through the woods. We saw wild deer on the side, they were so cute!!
Another night in the van and onto DC. What a freaken mission. I wont go wildly into the details but I would recommend anyone going to DC, dont take a car and please plan your trip. We got stuck in traffic for a couple of hours and when we got to where we wanted it was closed. It turned out ok in the end though. We found ourselves in Baltimore, Maryland and as we got into town saw that there was a baseball game on. We decided to embrace this all American tradition and went along. Primo seats for only $15. We didnt really understand too many of the rules though.
Today we got stuck in traffic again in DC, took us 2 hours to go 20miles (I'm so thankful that Andrew is so much more patient than I am). After a terrible start of not being able to find a park, only finding spanish speaking info people and not having any way to get to NYC the next day the day did get better. We saw the White house, Lincon Memorial, Reflective pool, the Museum of Natural History and the Museum of the American Indiain (thanks Marsha for the tip- had lunch there was yummy).
We are flying to NY tomorrow and then onto London to see Jeremy and Sarah!! Can't wait to see you guys!!!