Washington DC on my PC

Lily, Randy and I got back from Washington DC on Saturday. It was such a fun/interesting/exhausting trip. We flew out on Tuesday and stayed in Manassas the first two nights Randy had to work Wednesday, but he got back to the hotel in the mid-afternoon, so we got to see some of DC that night. we pretty much toured the rest of the time we were there (until Saturday). Lily was a trooper. She slept on all three flights and was full of smiles for the majority of the time. She slept a lot; either that or she was passed out from heat exhaustion. Either way, she was a great baby to haul along. I won't bore you with details of every single day, if you want that, you can call me. here are a few anecdotes from our trip. as well as a slide show. (I made sure you could speed it up in case you get bored. aren't I nice!)

Ratings:
Lincoln memorial-our favorite
WWII monument-Awesome!
Iwo Jima- Amazing and a lot bigger than I thought it would be (TWSS)
Korean Memorial-Eerily awesome at night
Jefferson Memorial-Very cool (loved how much he talks about God)
Roosevelt memorial- pretty, but why did they make him sitting everywhere when he didn't want to be thought of as "Handicapped"?
Washington Monument-It's OK you don't have to be right next to it to appreciate it.
Manassas National Battlefield- Interesting
National Archives- Randy liked it a lot more than I did
I loved the Museum of art (while Randy was bored)
Randy loved the Air and Space Museum (while I was bored)

Funny Stuff:
Lily pooping really loud on the flight to Virginia.

While crossing the street to the museum of Art, Randy was hit by a biker. (the kind that pull a cart with people in it.) Very funny to me, not so funny to Randy and Lily.

My super duper frizzy hair as high as the sky!

We ran into four LDS missionaries at the Manassas Battlefield Park. You can't get away from those Mormon missionaries!

The security guy at the Smithsonian looking at our map and saying to us "You are parked at the tidal basin?" with disbelief that we had walked that far. Yeah, my back and thighs couldn't believe it either; and we still had to walk BACK to the car!

Things I don't understand:
Really old men wearing REALLY short shorts.
The senators having GIANT office suites and sharing a whole floor of the building with just two other senators.
Most of the parents walked around holding a baby while the other one pushed an empty stroller
The roads in DC go one direction in the morning and another direction later in the day
The Cincinnati airport is not in Ohio but Kentucky
DC is completely dead by 4:30 in the afternoon
You can be stuck in traffic at from 8-10 at night when everyone got off work at 4:30
You order a water with your food and they give you a teeny tiny cup (yeah, I know that is everywhere, but come on! I am thirsty and I don't want a giant soda, I just want a big thing of water. It can't cost them that much to give me a normal sized cup full of water.)
how Randy's "Speed walk" can be twice as fast as mine.
How anyone can live in that humidity



So to sum up, we had a really fun time. If we were to do it again, we would do it a little differently; so if you are going soon, give us a call and we will give you some advice.