Washington DC

We left NY early on the 17th of March and headed down to Fort Lee, VA. We have some very good friends stationed there so we decided to take part of our travel time/vacation and go see them. It was so nice to sit around after dinner and catch up on what has been going on with all of us. Fort Lee is only about a 3hr drive from Washington DC so Thursday morning we got up and Vicki (our friend) took us to "see the sights". We were so lucky to have a beautiful sunny day that day. We walked to each end of the mall and saw the Washington Monument, Korean War Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Memorial, World War II Memorial, the Capital (from a distance) and also the Smithsonian Museum. It was such a great day and I was very proud of Andrew for walking the entire time without complaining (we walked about 5 or 6 miles).

Ava's 1st time in the stroller without the car seat

Our family picture with the Washington Monument in the background

Family picture with the capitol in the background

Another family picture in the "cool tree" we found. It was so bright so we couldn't get one with Andrew not squinting.

The best shot I could get of the World War II Memorial. It was soo big I couldn't fit it all in

In front of the WW II Memorial

Part of the Korean War Memorial

Lincoln Memorial

Vietnam Memorial:
Of all of the memorials this was one of the most overwhelming. It is hard to take in all of those names.

Andrew checking out some fossils at the Smithsonian

seeing who is taller.....Adam and Andrew or the bear

Front of the Smithsonian

These are just a few of the ones I took while we were in Washington DC. I decided not to overwhelm everyone with all of the ones I have :-)

My next blog will be about our time with family in Arkansas. I will probably have to divide it into 2 blogs but we will see