Heres a real mixture of pictures in no particular order, from Washington DC, New York and Three Mile Island.....

Starting with a few snaps of Times Square and Broadway.

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Inside Planet Hollywood on Broadway

I got in a fight with some jumped up bouncer.

Whilst Karro checked out the costumes worn by incredibly skinny actresses.

I have been to Planet Hollywood (restaurant) a couple of times, but Karolina had never been. It is cool to see all the costumes and props from hollywood blockbusters, but as with the other times I have been there, the food is nothing more than ok, bordering on the barely edible... so now we have been there, we will never have to go back. Hopefully.

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Still Jet Lagged, but the Starbbucks coffee perked us up!

We took an open top guided tour bus ride around Manhattan, lots of interesting information and well worth the 50 dollar ticket price. The ticket was valid for all of the 5 different tours and for 48 hours... by which time we had seen enough of Manhattan to last for a few years!

Cast Iron building structures are probably common in the world, but we had never seen one before and thought they were fascinating. The pillars you can see between the windows aren't made of stone as they appear, but of cast iron, and form the structure that holds the building up. The pillars are equally spaced, not just on the outside, but also inside the buildings too.
This is a picture of one of the nicer ones..

Karolinas favourite (?).... as seen on Friends and Sex in the City.. the wedge shaped flat iron building....

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Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant

I took Karolina to the place I once lived in Middletown Pennsylvania and also drove out to the visitors center at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.
The visitors center is now closed down, but we heard a band rehearsing inside and then found the drummer on his way back from the donut and coffee run.
He invited us in to see what was left of the visitors center displays, we talked to some guys who had actually worked on the reactor meltdown/cleanup operations that took 15 years, got treated to donuts and a walk around the control room simulator... I pretended to be Homer Simpson, but I wasn't lazy/fat/drunk enough, the button is the reactor trip to shut everything down if all hell breaks loose, and below is the lever to lower the fuel rods and nuke some water to make electrickery!

Woo-hoo... Doh!

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Elephant and Castle Pub on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC.

HUGE platters of appetisers and food... world cup football on the telly, air-con on the coldest setting... and yuengling beer. From America's oldest brewery... http://www.yuengling.com/ Add beer and food to jet-lag and you find two tired little bunnies....

but

Fresh baked dutch soft pretzels... mmm

Just a small appetiser....

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Obligatory white house picture.... (lack of capital letters intentional)

Smaller than I expected... but if you look closely you can see Bill Clinton laying on his back behind the bushes... ;-)


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Uptown New York, on the same block as Tom's Diner (Seinfeld Place)

Fire Hydrant picture for Riley my dog...

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Smithsonian Institute Air and Space Museum. Washington DC

Apollo Lunar module "replica" .... they say that the "real one" is still on "the moon". Yeah right.... they never went there, this is the "real one" they just had to bring it over from Area 53.. ;-)

Don't believe me... check out http://moonmovie.podshowcreator.com/

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It's that Forrest Gump place...

Lincoln Memorial.... with Karolina on the steps. Beside Karro is a woman in pink shorts, taking a picture of me, because she had never seen a skinny person before.