Washington DC

Thanksgiving this year did not include a turkey, trimmings or any of the other usual festivities. This however is not unusual for us. I often plan a road trip over Thanksgiving. I have been promising the kids since we got here that we would go to Washington DC. I got tickets to tour the Capitol. Henry was in charge of taking pictures there. Here are some examples:


The last one is in front of the Capitol where they are setting up for the inaugaration. We also went to the National Air and Space Museum. The kids, and Mom, were pretty tired after this (it was only about 1:00) and we called it quits and went back to the hotel. I fell asleep and Ben took the kids to the hot tub. Saturday we went to the newly re-opened National American History Museum. This is one of my favorite museums. The have put in a couple of hands-on areas, which is where we spent most of our time, but we also went and saw The Star Spangled Banner flag in it's new permanent display. We also went to the National Archives and saw the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
Sunday all we did was Sacrament meeting. I was beat. Monday morning we went to the Washington Monument, where the kids were relieved to find out that they didn't have to walk up all 898 steps. We spent the rest of the day retrieving the car from my mom's cousin's house near Georgetown, getting new tires (one blew out on me when I was driving it to park...thanks AAA.) and getting home. I think that we were all pretty tired. I'm glad we went though.