Day 6 - Mt. Vernon

So Thursday. We went to Mt. Vernon. One of Cathy's friends met up with us and spent the day with us. Her name is Sara. She is a DS Special Agent. DS stands for Diplomatic Security and they handle the security for the Department of State, which includes protecting the Secretary of State as well as foreign diplomats in the states. They are also at each American Embassy around the world.

Anywho..... we headed off to Mt. Vernon and spent most of the day there. We had a good time. The actual Museum and Education Center is better than the Mansion tour. We just got shuttled thru like cattle and frankly didn't get to learn a whole heck of a lot but it was neat anyways. A lot of of the pics of the water I post are from the back porch of Mt. Vernon overlooking the Potomac. Pretty incredible view and I can only imagine what it would have been like to live there in the late 1700's. So we left there and headed to Tysons Corner Center. This is a Mall that is ridiculously big. The reason we went was because they have an American Girl store that Laura had been jonesing to get to. She had saved her allowance and birthday money for this day. It was a huge event. After about an hour of shopping it to death she had made her acquisition. Today, Friday, she is wearing the same outfit as Julie is wearing. It is very cute. I will put the pictures up on tomorrow's version of the blog. Let me just say that Josie got an American Girl doll as well. Her name is Felicity. Yes my 5 month old has a very expensive doll. Part of me died at this place. I am admittedly weak when it comes to these girls. I just hope that they don't kill me with it over our lifetime.

So then we went to Ray's Hell Burger in Arlington. Apparently President Obama went there to eat recently so it was placed on our agenda as well. The burgers were good but honestly 5 Guys makes a much better burger but it was for the experience, right?? Riley loved to say where he was eating and what he was eating...just because he got to say the word "hell" and not get into trouble.

So this pretty much ended our day. Tomorrow we go to Baltimore and go to an Orioles game. They've lost 8 in a row. We may be the only ones there. Enjoy our pics...especially the ones of Cathy eating a Hell Burger and the one of me at Mt. Vernon...