Wed. May 7, '08

DAY 3 of our adventure:

Wednesday brought another day of sunshine and so another day of sight seeing. Unfortunately, Little S was still very sick and so my BIL decided to stay home with all the kids and my SIL and I went to see the sights. We started at the Washington Memorial.
Then we walked to find some souvenirs and ended up at the White House. You'll notice how dusty this picture is...it's because some guy on a large piece of machinery was grating some dirt near the White House and it was putting lots and lots of dust in the air. After this, we walked to the WWII Memorial (but I don't have a picture of it on this post...sorry).
After walking to the WWII Memorial, we took a short side trip to the Island where the Signers of the Declaration of Independance have their names, we then took another side trip to this statue of Albert Einstein. Luckily for us, not many people were near the statue and so my SIL was able to get an "up close and personal" shot.
From Einstein, we actually sat for a few minutes and ate a snack. We had been walking for miles but enjoying every minute...almost. Anyway, after the snack we saw the Vietnam Memorial.
And then the Korean Memorial.

And then the Lincoln Memorial.

And then we walked and walked and crossed a huge bridge over the Potmac...crossed into Virginia and went to the Arlington National Cementery. We walked many, many miles that day. And then we had to get back to the apartment because Little S had an appointment with a doctor to help her get some medicine so that she could start feeling better and stop having fevers...which is what happened.

Because my BIL stayed home with the kids all day, after SM got home from work, he took everyone (except SIL and Little S) on a tour of some of the Memorials at night. We started at the Iwojima Memorial and got there just after dusk. I wasn't sure any of these picurew would turn out, but this one did.

Here are the boys in front of the Lincoln Memorial. I was amazed at the hundreds of teenagers that were at this memorial. In fact, there could have easily been one thousand kids there that night.

We ended the night tour at the Jefferson Memorial. I think those boys got to bed past ten o'clock that evening. I know that I was exhausted! What a great day to end a day!