Day Four:
Early Sunday morning, we hopped on a boat to cruise up the Potomac River to Mount Vernon.
We're on a boat!
Mt. Vernon.
Mt. Vernon was a lot more than just a house! We saw the farm and the "town" of the various buildings needed to house the many slaves and servants. And, of course, we visited the tomb of George Washington.
After the cruise back to DC, we spent the afternoon in the National Gallery of Art.
Sunday night was date night! I thought it was important to get a little alone time with my husband, so I dragged him off to The Dubliner, an awesome Irish pub that we visited the last time we were in town.
After the cruise back to DC, we spent the afternoon in the National Gallery of Art.
Sunday night was date night! I thought it was important to get a little alone time with my husband, so I dragged him off to The Dubliner, an awesome Irish pub that we visited the last time we were in town.
Day Five:
Because Rex had such a great time at the Air and Space Museum, we decided that we needed to make our way to the companion facility by the Dulles airport. The Udvar-Hazy Center is where the Smithsonian keeps all of the REALLY big planes that could never fit in the museum on the mall. The first thing we saw when we walked in on Monday was the SR-71 Blackbird, which is huge and awesome.
The Blackbird with the space shuttle in the background.
Cool stuff, including the Enola Gay and the Conchord.
Visiting this giant hangar was one of my favorite parts of the trip. We took a tour from a very interesting retired aviation engineer, and it was super cool.
The afternoon was spent at the Natural History and American History museums before we had a yummy dinner at Elephant & Castle.
The afternoon was spent at the Natural History and American History museums before we had a yummy dinner at Elephant & Castle.
Day Six:
Our final day in DC started at the Old Post Office Tower, where we got some excellent views.
Our final day in DC started at the Old Post Office Tower, where we got some excellent views.
Most of the day was spent in the Natural History and American History museums, seeing everything we hadn't seen in our brief visits the day before. While perusing the museums, we met up with an old friend of Matt's from high school, Brother Victor. He's been going through seminary school out there, and we hadn't seen him in years. It was great to visit and catch up, and I'm only sorry that I didn't get a single picture of Matt and Brother Victor during the whole day! Oh, well...
Anyway, we enjoyed dinner with Brother Victor at Austin Grill and had a final walk up to the Washington Monument to end our trip. Touching the monument had to be checked off our to-do list before we left the next day.
Anyway, we enjoyed dinner with Brother Victor at Austin Grill and had a final walk up to the Washington Monument to end our trip. Touching the monument had to be checked off our to-do list before we left the next day.
So tall... and pretty.
Sadly, it was time to head home the next day. But our trip had been fantastic, especially because there were no heart attacks involved!
Sadly, it was time to head home the next day. But our trip had been fantastic, especially because there were no heart attacks involved!
Last night in DC.I think the trip was even better than we could have hoped because we had waited so long to finally make it happen!
*If you made it through both the DC posts, you're probably overloaded on pictures. But in case you didn't get enough, there are a lot more here.*
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