Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Amtrak to DC

We don't have any 'big' vacation plans this summer...so we're doing 'little day trips'! Our first one was riding Amtrak to Washington DC yesterday! We did this once before about 4 1/2 yrs ago...



Although we had a MAP...we wandered around quite a bit til we found what we were looking for :) The boys wanted to stop by the White House.



They couldn't understand why we couldn't just go up and "meet George Bush". haha



Next stop was the National Aquarium!



This was a ginormous lobster!



...and snake!...



on our walks, we saw lotsa big things we tried to take cool pics of...This flag was HUGE!



We had a picnic lunch in front of the monument...






Walked by the reflection pool, on the way to the Lincoln Memorial, where the boys kept trying to find THEIR reflection...haha



took a break to draw a little bit...



This is the WWII Memorial. Very touching. There were several WWII vets there...



Finally ended up seeing Abe. Zach thought it was sad because he's dead and said he meant to "bring a $5" to put at his statue...haha



more silly pics at the top of the Memorial...



Lots of other people were doing the same thing~ haha



Made it to the Natural History Museum!! The last pic I have of this, Zach was in a stroller!



At the reflecting pool, reflecting on our day.... :)

7 comments:

Kim said...

Great pictures, Chris! Thanks for sharing about your mini-vaca and summer so far. :) You all look fantabulous!

Deb said...

What a fun time....love the pictures! We'll certainly have to plan on it in December-ish!

Deb said...

You have MORE of those shorts??? How many do you have??? HAHA!

CMS said...

i don't think i like your tone of comment about my shorts! i like them better than the others and they're NOT the same! at least i didn't have to take things back to Old Navy today! >:0 ycwg.....s

Deb said...

I can't help it if my boobs don't fit into ANYTHING I buy.....I mean ANYTHING! I have to get sizes WAY bigger than my bottom to fit my top....how uncool is that?

AND.....sister dear, I was JUST saying/asking how many shorts like THAT you had??!! :)

Grama Bonnie said...

At least you won't have to take any tops back to Old Navy.....Great, GREAT,GREAT!!!! photos and adventure for all, glad you had fun there. Do P and Z know how MANY times Grama has walked up and down the Monument stairs in the olden days??? You can't even do that anymore.

Eileen said...

Super fun postings, Chris! thanks for sharing your adventures with us! I too remember going up the Washington Monument stairs in the olden days...more times than I can count!