Saturday, March 24, 2012

Day 2- Downtown DC








We got up early, got ready and drove to the Metro Station. We rode the 50 minute packed Metro to downtown DC. We got off at our stop and walked a little while to see the White House. We took a few pics of the boys with our phones considering we could not bring our cameras with us. We got some good pics of everyone then walked around the White House for our tour. We entered in and showed us our ID and went through security. Once inside we started at the Library, then the Vermeil Room, China Room, Dipolmatic Reception Room, Map Room before heading upstairs. Once upstairs we followed this line into the East Room, Green Room, Blue Room, Red Room and the State Dining Room. That was all we got to tour as the rest is the Private living area for the President and his Family. We went outside on the other side then where we came in. We walked across the street to the Gift Shop. We walked around there but did not get anything. We then walked to the Natural History Museum. We decided to get a bite to eat first then walked around the museum. We started with the dinosaurs, then moved to the Mammals, then finished off with the bugs. We left and found an ice cream store and sat there for a little bit. We walked over to the Metro and got on the the train to the Metro Center, changed trains and went to our stop. We drove home and vegged until dinner. After dinner we just sat around and visited while the boys played. We went to bed around 10:30 that night.

Washington DC Trip.

Camron and I had the privilege of going to Washington DC/Maryland area for 6 days. After school (3:45 ish) Tuesday we drove to Spokane. We arrived in Spokane at my brothers house. Since it was his actual birthday we decided to take him out for dinner that night. We took him to Longhorn BBQ in Airway Heights for dinner that night. After dinner we had him take us over to BC house. My Brother was keeping our car for the week that we were gone. We visited a while then My Brother took off. About a half hour later, Mom and Dad arrived. We went to bed and woke up the next morning at 3:30 am. We drove to the Spokane Airport for our flight at 6:00 am. We landed in Salt Lake to snow. We had a 45 minute layover in which we tried to look for a place to eat breakfast. The only place we found was a Krispy Kreme doughnut stand. We each grabbed a doughnut and a yogurt. We got on the plane and left Salt Lake at 9:35. The plane to DC was a 4 hour and 1 minute flight. It was a long flight. We arrived in DC at 3:45 ET. We grabbed our luggage and headed for the Metro. The Metro is like the Subway in New York. Once on the Metro we had about 1 hour and 20 minutes to get to the TS house. We had to change trains once with all our luggage was a success. We arrived at the stop that TS live and S was there to pick us up. When we arrived at their house, we put our luggage where it was suppose to go. S had dinner already for us (Hawaiian Haystacks). The boys were excited that we were all there so we just hang out the rest of the night. We went to bed early knowing we were having to get up early.