Vacation adventure 1 the airplane ride!
Ben loved to be at the airport we saw lots of planes and were able to run all over the place do blow fishes at the pilots as the came in for a landing… he loved it. All until we got on the airplane… 4 hours of sitting on Mom and Dad’s lap he was just not having it… but after we started taxiing out of the gate and getting ready to take off he was asleep in dads arms and we thought we were set for 2 hours of quite till he was done with his afternoon nap… boy were we wrong that nap lasted all of 45 minutes and then it was up and down and playing with all the toy I packed… Thankful everyone thought Ben was cute and no one cared that he was such an active baby… except for the guy in front of Kyle he was a jerk…. But we didn’t let him ruin our long plane ride.
And then we were off the plane and got our things in the car and off we were to our hotel. We learned fast that NO one can drive here and they love to use their Horns for no reason they will honk the horns just to show they are in a bad mood. If you know how Dad is you can imagine that lovely car trip. So we decided to take the back roads to avoid any further traffic. The homes out here are all pretty much my dream fixer upper homes they are so cute and old so they have a ton of personality.
The next morning we were off to D.C. everyone and their dog (literally) we going to church so it took us forever to finally drive into D.C , it was the catholic day to bless your pets so a lot of people were taking their animals to church. The weather was rainy and windy and it wasn’t very nice walking weather but that couldn’t stop us from walking the National mall! First stop was the Smithsonian though we were to the Air and space museum where Grandpa bought Ben his first space suit Ben was quite the attraction people were not only taking pictures of him but asking to take pictures with him he wasn’t quite sure about what to think about all these people paying so much attention to him but he didn’t seem to mind.
After that we left the warm museum to head out on way to walk the 2 mile walk of the National mall. The memorials were so worth the wait to come out. We were so sad not to be able to go in the Washington Memorial since the earthquake it has been closed but being able to look up at it was amazing! War memorials we didn’t take pictures of it didn’t feel right to us but we were able to look and them and remember those who served for our great country and as always a great reminder that out freedom is never free. The best moment of the day was finally being able to see the Lincoln monument… He seemed really small to me after seeing close ups of him on the news but it was so amazing to be there. It felt un real to finally be there we headed back to the car due the crazy amount of rain that was now pouring down on us and that was our first day!
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