Thursday night we slept on the plane. I think I'm too old for that. I don't remember airplanes being so uncomfortable. Then we rented a car and drove 4 hours to Meema and Peepa's house. It was great to spend time with them. The kids had fun just hanging out and they loved riding skateboards on their driveway. We drove to Bob's parents' graves and all over the area their family is from. We went to church and ran into one of Bob's friends from high school. So we visited their farm that afternoon. That was interesting. They have 7 kids and she home schools them.
Monday and tuesday we picked apples and went to dinner and just hung out. I read 2 books in 2 days so I was pretty lazy. It was great. The weather was so nice and it was nice to just hang out with them. We bought their minivan. It's way nicer than if we would have gone to get one on our own. We are loving the DVD player and automatic doors and GPS and in the winter I'm sure I'm going to love the heated seats. We took the van Tuesday night and drove up to our hotel in Alexandria.
Bob got us a great hotel with plenty of space for all of us. Wednesday we rode the metro to the national mall. We went to the National archives where they have the constitution and bill of rights. Then we went to the museum of Natural History. That one is so big and full of interesting things. It took us several hours. It was fun to think about how Heavenly Father created all of those things for us. Then we went to the Museum of American History. That one is so big too. After a full day of walking around museums we got back on the metro and went to the Nationals Ballpark and watched the nationals play the Braves. We stayed for half the game and rode the metro home.
Thursday we drove in and went to the Capitol Building for a Nevada meet and greet with Senator Harry Reid. Then we toured the Capitol. Then we went to the Botanical museum and then to the Air and Space museum. The kids liked riding the simulator ride there and seeing how much they weigh on the moon. Aaron weighed 9 lbs. Then we went to the Jefferson monument at the end of the day. That one was a little sad for me because there were 4 quotes on the walls around the monument and most of them talked about God and one talked about how our rights are from God and we forget that as a nation we will fail. So much of our nation seems to have forgotten God.
Friday we went to the National Zoo. It's been a while since we've been to the zoo so that was fun. Then the kids and Bob went to the Spy museum and I went to the Newseum. They were both fairly expensive museums and we both wanted to see ours so splitting up worked great. Then we walked over to the White House and just as we got there they started clearing part of the lawn in front of it. We found out it was because President Obama was supposed to land soon. So we stayed and watched his and 2 other helicopters fly right over us and land on the White House lawn. There were men with guns on top of all the buildings around and they had another helicopter circle over the area for about 10 minutes first to make sure it was clear. We couldn't see the president get out, but it was still neat to be there.
Saturday we went to Mt. Vernon. That was really good. They've done it so well. You really got a feel for what a good man George Washington was. We all were glad we go to go there. Then we went to Arlington National Cemetery. We watched the changing of the guard at the tomb of the unknown soldier. It rained on us.
I was worried about the kids whining or having a bad attitude on this trip and about Bob getting stressed out and grumpy too. So the first night we set up a points game where if everyone had all their points there was a reward at the end of the day. It worked great. Everyone behaved really well.
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