Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast.

Our family just returned from vacation a couple of days ago,

and the city we visited is so interesting, it deserves its own podcast episode.

But before we get to the topic for this week, I need to read you an amazing review we received on iTunes.

It says, what a great podcast. Olivia is smarter than most adults I know.

Thanks for the great review. Yes, thanks so much. Olivia is a smart cookie, and she is always

curious to learn more and more. We decided to take a family

vacation this year to a destination that would allow her to satisfy her hunger for more knowledge.

This week, we're getting curious about Washington, D.C. That's right. We just spent four days in

Washington, D.C., and we saw so many interesting things while we were there.

What's the question of the week?

The question of the week is, how many rooms are in the White House?

The White House is very big, and it's got lots of rooms.

Can you guess how many rooms it has?

So what is Washington, D.C.? Washington D.C. is the capital

of the United States. That's true, but it wasn't always that way. The original capital of the United

States was Manhattan, New York. Before George Washington's second term came to an end,

the capital moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the year 1788, James Madison, who would later

become the fourth president of the United States, argued that the capital of the United States

should not be located within a

state, but rather in a district devoted to the United States government.

Our founding fathers couldn't agree where the capital should be.

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