Washington D.C.

The first week of summer we took the kids to Washington D.C.. We had planned to go the previous year over Spring break and then Covid hit and we had to cancel. It was something I really wanted to do before Lia left the house. So even though we had a to do a little mask wearing and some of the museums were still not fully open, we had a great trip! We started at Mount Vernon--George Washington's home. It was awesome! The grounds were beautiful and we learned a lot there. From there we went to Annapolis and walked around there for a little bit. And then we went back to D.C. and saw the Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam Memorial, the WW11 Memorial, the Washington Monument (where we watched Marine One land--which was really cool), the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, and we got as close as we could to the White House. The next day we went to the Air and Space Museum in Virginia (which Josh especially loved and where he got his souvenir--a miniature model of a SR-71 Blackbird that he was SO excited about) and Arlington National Cemetery. In the middle of the week Nate had to take a work trip. We knew he had to when we booked the trip, but it was the only week we could make it work. So he took one for the team and made a quick trip to Kentucky. While he was gone, we spent the day at the Washington D.C. Zoo and then met up with him for dinner that night and to ride scooters to the Jefferson Memorial. Our last day there we went to the Spy Museum (that was Megan's favorite part) and got ice cream to end the night. The place we were staying wasn't awesome, so we decided to leave a night early and squeeze in a trip to Philadelphia before heading home. We finished our new Washington D.C. puzzle just in time before we left.