For my first catch up post, we are going back to February when the kids had a four day weekend. It was the perfect opportunity to visit our ex-neighbors who were spending a year in DC. James and Andy were very excited and went ahead and packed their toys a couple of days early. We were going to ride up with John and Christopher so Ms. Juliet was very stressed when she saw this picture. I mean, how were we going to fit everyone in the car!
We left 6am on a Friday. No, no one went back to sleep.
We made pretty good time on the way there, although we did have to stop a few times.
Although it was tempting to stay with the Turners in their 900 square foot apartments with their two adults and three kids plus our two adults and 4 kids, we opted to stay in a hotel. This was James and Andy's first stay in a hotel (we are condo people) and they were really excited.
They were also excited to see their friends: Henry, June, and JoJo.
The weather was going to be bad all weekend. There was no way around it. Day 1 we spend walking around the mall.
The older boys loved it, the younger ones, not so much. I forgot the number one rule of traveling with Andy. You must have snacks!
Although James was only in Kindergarten at this point, he already seemed to know a lot about DC history. I was so impressed!
Now, the real reason we came: girl time and margaritas! Thanks to Brandon for watching all SEVEN kids so we could go out.
Day 2 we went to the air and space museum. Not the one off the mall, the big one by Dulles. It was huge. I was taken aback that they had the REAL Enola Gay.
They had cute programs for the kids like a paper airplane contest. Can you believe it is someone's job to run these things?
Really, the kids just wanted to run around.
Monday found us heading home. It had snowed pretty much all around DC, so we had an impromptu snowball fight at one of our stops.
Time back was 9 hours. Christopher threw up all the way home, but I was driving so it wasn't my problem. ;)
It was a great adventure and I am so glad James and Andy had the opportunity to travel a little bit. Thanks so much for showing us around Ms. Becky!
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