Granny Chute between Patsy Marley and Mt. Wolverine

Some pictures of John skiing down the Granny Chute between Patsy Marley and Mt. Wolverine

Family Trip Day 7

On the last day of our trip, we went to the National Zoo. It was really cool, because you can just walk in. You don't have to pay!

Our kids were both asleep!

Cheetah

Giselle

Emu

Panda. This guy was funny. He walked up to the top of the hill and rolled down on his back.

Cute Macers

Cute Cruzers

I don't even know what this thing is! (Kind of ugly though!)

Crocodile- or an alligator if your name is Mace.

Orangutan

Little Gorilla

Lions

After the zoo, we went to the Arlington Cemetery. It was a neat experience to walk past so many graves. It really was beautiful to see so many tombstones. I tried to find out how many people are buried there, but didn't have a lot of luck. The best answer I found was that there are over 400,000 people there.

John F. Kennedy's grave, along with his wife and two of their children. You can also see the eternal flame.

We saw The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. This was very touching. There is a soldier guarding it at all times. We were even lucky enough to see the changing of the guard, right before they closed. It was very neat.

I was a bit nervous about taking the kids with us. Luckily, they were great and acted very appropriately. As we were leaving, Cruz started acting a bit restless. I picked up a leaf to try and entertain him with it. He only wanted to eat it, and if we tried to take it away, he cried. So, he ate a leaf. Silly baby.

After the cemetery, we were to the National Archives Building in D.C. We weren't there very long, but we did get to see the Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, and the Constitution. Unfortunately, we couldn't take any pictures while we were there. Everything is really faded, but it was really neat to see the documents, especially after going to Philadelphia to Independence Hall. It made us feel really grateful to be Americans. We are so lucky to live in America!

We flew home the next morning and that ended our trip. We loved every minute of it. We had a blast doing something that we have always wanted to do. The kids were pretty good overall, and we really enjoyed the time together as a family. We learned a lot about traveling with kids. We are grateful we were able to go. Someday, Tyler and I want to go again.

Family Trip Day 6

**This post has so many pictures!!**

Day six was such a crazy busy and super fun day. We went to Washington D.C. It was seriously so much fun. We rode the metro (which was refreshing, because it was so clean) to the city and started right by the Capitol building. I never knew this, but the city was designed so that many of the streets point to The Capitol.

One cool thing about D.C. is all the museums they have. Another cool thing is, they are almost all free!

We went to the National Museum of the American Indian. I love just about anything to do with Native Americans. I love to see how they lived, and imagine what their life was like. We sped through, but we saw some really cool things.

Our next stop was the Air and Space Museum. We got to see many types of artifact from airplanes and space craft. Some of it is a copy of the original, and some of it is original. This place was HUGE! They have airplanes hanging from the ceiling! While we were in the museum, we stopped for lunch at McDonald's. Again, it was HUGE! It was the biggest McDonald's I have ever seen. You first ordered you food and paid for it, then took the receipt to another counter to collect your food! There were several hundred people there eating. Tyler and I wondered how much that one McDonald's makes each day.

 

We walked through the Sculpture Garden on our way to the Natural History Museum

Right outside the Natural History Museum. Petrified Wood, 200 Million years old.

They had everything you could thing of in this museum. Just when we though we had seen it all, we realized there was another wing or something that we had missed.

 

The Hope Diamond

The last museum we went to was the American History Museum. Both of our kids were asleep at this point!

We saw dresses worn by the First Ladies. They were all very classy looking pieces.

Dishes from different presidents in the White House

This was the last thing we got to see before the museum closed.

After leaving the museums, we walked and walked to different monuments.

The Washington Memorial. I guess you used to be able to go inside. On August 23, 2011, there was an earthquake in Virginia that caused damage to the memorial and now they don't allow people to go in.

The World War II Memorial

The Korean War Memorial

You can't see this one very well, but we were at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. It is a wall filled with 58,195 names from those who died or were unaccounted for during the war. Mace is standing next to the wall and you can see the Washington Memorial in the back ground.

The last place we stopped was the Lincoln Memorial. As I rode the elevator up, I found out that the other couple riding with me was from Midvale, UT. Cool to be around people from Utah, even if just for a few minutes. They were kind enough to take our picture!

We were there as the sun was setting, so we got some cool shots!

Our kids, we love them!

 

The back of the White House. The front was blocked off, due to David Cameron- the Prime Minister of England- being in town

The Metro

We tried for a long time to find a place to eat after the sun had set. Everything closes so early!

Tyler and I had a blast seeing everything in D.C. We already want to go back and spend more time in each of the museums. There were also tons of people running. I think I would like to jog in that city! One thing we thought was pretty cool, was how clean the city is. We hardly saw any trash!