Whew!!! It’s already Thursday of vacation week??? We took a little trip to Washington DC for the beginning of vacation, and had a blast!! Now, I need to buckle down for the next couple days and get things cleaned up around here :) So… I guess I’m thankful that Mike has a job where he “has” to go to Washington to pick up equipment :) Here’s a couple of pictures…
The Jefferson Memorial… a pic from my phone…
The kiddos at the National Zoo
Mount Vernon (which we’ve never been too… Really had a great day there…)
Battle field of the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) Also the first time we’d been here… I found it to be quite disconcerting… It was a lovely but overcast day… We went there after Mount Vernon, so it was later in the afternoon and very quiet… We did the shorter loop walk… birds singing, little butterflies around… and you look around and see the home (still standing) and the cannons where they were… Hard to imagine how awful it was on that day… Of course, the kids thought it was a fun walk through the fields, and who doesn’t love cannons?
A picture from my phone from Arlington National Cemetery… my facebook status from that day was:
Hates heeleys… And parents who buy their kids heeleys… And especially those parents who let their kids in heeleys treat Arlington National Cemetary like a skate park… Honestly, I think common sense should be placed on the endangered species list…
BUT I’m thankful that Mike actually spoke to the “cherub” in question, and he walked the rest of the way… The kid was between me and Mike walking down one of the sections of long stairs… skating almost into Mike at each section… then when we got to the open road, the kid was skating down and around til his parents called him to keep walking the next section of stairs… Mike turned to him finally and said, “Hey, this is a cemetery, you should show some respect and walk” and the kid did, he walked the rest of the way… where were his parents??? Oh, yes, right there… I’m sure they thought that Mike was being a bad guy… but honestly… there are signs all over Arlington that request quiet respect… How sad that they need signs to begin with, but even then…
That’s about it for today :) I need to go and get laundry switched over and the house picked up, we left kinda in a hurry Friday afternoon, and the house looks like a tornado went through it…
