Whirlwind Weekend Part II - Washington D.C. on Saturday

We had absolutely beautiful weather! It's like Cory must have brought spring weather from Nevada with him. Dave got a GPS for his birthday, so the boys sat up front and got the new toy plugged in and ready to go.

Rachel and I were in the back seat - me documenting the trip (Rachel telling me that it really wasn't necessary to document her - tee hee hee). Notice the starbucks frappuccino (sp?) - Cory had one also. Dave and I were more aware of the potential need for potty breaks. Older bladder control?


So off we go to the College Park (U of Md) Metro Station. We get our fare cards and hop on. I, of course, need to document Cory standing for his first Metro/Subway ride.

First stop - Union Station (huge train station). We walk across the street the Post Office Museum - where of course we visit the Capitol City Brewery. They have samples in cute little glasses of all the beers they brew.

Just to be polite, people taste the samples......

Back across the street to Union Station, back on Metro and next stop Smithsonium/Mall and assorted monuments.

Washington Monument - 897 steps - Dave says he walked up it when we got married, his Mother was here and I imagine his Mother and I took the elevator.

Next was the WWII Memorial, it was our visit time seeing this memorial.

Then we walked along the reflecting pool (chatting about Forest Gump) and as Cory looked back to take a picture I snapped his - the monument behind him is the Lincoln Memorial.

The Vietnam wall here (Washington Monument in the background).

If you look really carefully you can see Cory's brown shirt and Dave's white head at the top of the stairs on the left as they go into the Lincoln Memorial.

We took a short pause and when I turned around, Rachel and Cory both had their cell phones out and both talking to their "honeys." Well, I'm assuming it was their "honeys." My honey was buying us all bottles of water. The weather was so nice, but we were all really hiking - still had places to go, things to do, people to see. . . .

Think this might be my favorite memorial - Korean War Memorial - these statues are life size and when you walk up on them, it's just uncanny. I would really like to see this at night, there are lights there so I'm sure it would be an incredible sight.

Waiting underground to change trains - no photos of the rest of the day, but we got back to College Park, picked up Rachel's honey, Rich. Then went to Hard Times Cafe for dinner. Then everyone came back to our house and the young people went hoppin', the old uns went to bed.

I will post the Sunday whirlwind pictures, later.

BUT, THIS MUCH FUN (AND MORE) IS AVAILABLE TO ALL FAMILY WHO WISH TO VISIT US!!!!!!!