Last Day in DC

So Saturday was it. The last day. Trying to cram in all of that stuff that we hadn't done yet. This is impossible to see with just two people, much less 6 and 3 of those being kids. But...we had to try. We will call this Memorial Day. We went first to the Washington Monument. We didn't get to go up in it because tickets were sold out until sometime in August unless you get there early in the morning to get tickets for the day and that just wasn't going to happen.

We then headed to the World War II Memorial. This was cool because there were several veterans there and most were in wheelchairs and we took the kids up to their group and shook their hands and thanked them for their service to our country. I think it was special for them and us both.

Then we headed to the Korean War Memorial. This was special because both of our Dad's fought in this war. Pretty special indeed and a neat memorial to go to.

Next up was the Wall at the Vietnam War Memorial. Kind of surreal seeing all of the names of those that gave their lives up for our country in that war. Goose bump kind of thing...

We kind of ended the Memorial swoop with the Lincoln Memorial. This is a neat monument and one that is special to Riley since he has done a project in school on Abraham Lincoln. It has a great view back towards the US Capitol but the only bummer was that the reflecting pool was drained and being worked on so that kind of took a bit of the beauty of the view away but it was still pretty amazing. We were going to have April run out thru the water shouting "Forrest, Forrest" and I was going to be standing on the steps going "Jenny...". But it just wasn't meant to be. Sigh. The good thing was that I was able to represent my family and all of Tennessee by being in as many random family photos that I could sneak into. Now I didn't pose with them but I just "happened" to be in the background of anyone I could find that was taking a picture. A "Where's Waldo?" event if you will.

So at this point we were monumented out so we headed to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. What was our first stop once we got there? Yep. McDonald's. Had to feed the beast. Or as we like to call him...Riley. We then meandered around and saw a Moon rock and a Space Monkey and lots and lots of planes and then saw a 3D IMax movie about planes.

So at this point we had all pretty much given all we had to give and headed home. All the stuff we didn't get to will just have to wait till the next time we come here. Just between you and me, I don't think Josie is going to remember any of this....

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