Washington DC & Baltimore

We’re baaaack! Came back early this afternoon to beat the shore traffic. All in all the drive both ways was not bad at all. I drove down with the boys (John was already in Baltimore) with 2 DVD players, 2 gameboys, and about 15 movies. And can I just say how much I love my minivan with the Navigation system? That car does everything except drive for you.

When we arrived in Baltimore, we went over to Inner Harbor for lunch and visited the Constellation (according to Timmy "a pirate ship"-the boys are below with their best pirate faces) and the submarine "Tursk". The submarine was so cool, but very claustrophobic and smelly. But I got some good pictures! Then it was time for the  boys to take off for the Orioles game with John and Grandma and Grandpa. I had a nice dinner date with Timmy in the hotel restaurant. The next morning, everyone including Timmy slept in so we got a late start to DC. But once we checked into the Alexandria hotel, we hopped on the Metro and went to the Mall to see "stuff". We started at the WWII monument (pretty, but not emotionally effective), the Washington Monument (had to see it from the ground as all the tickets were sold out for the top). Then we moved on to the Vietnam Wall, which was so moving and emotional and upsetting and beautiful. Grandpa was especially moved since he served in Vietnam. Even I cried! Grandpa bought the boys some pins from his outfit in Vietnam-they all really liked that. We moved on past the reflecting pool to the Lincoln Monument. Grandpa of course had history lessons for each of the monuments, which they ate up! Grandpa had them counting the steps up to the Lincoln monument (there are 50-1 for each state), and doing math figuring out 4 score & 7 years, and then what year Lincoln made the Gettysburg Address based on that. They were loving it! We checked out the medals on display and Grandpa told the boys which ones he had and what the others meant. Timmy napped during most of the Mall, which is really for the best because he would have been either bored or running. We all shuffled back to the Metro where Grandpa continued to fight with the MetroCard machine and ended up with about $30 in cards. He and that machine DID NOT get along! We met N&C for dinner in Old Town which was so nice. We had made plans to take a walking Ghost tour that night, but we were all so walked out, we couldn’t make it. Timmy even had a melt down after dinner, he was so done! So that was our trip from start to end. All of the pictures are in an album on the left side. Just click and look if you’d like. Thanks for reading if you made it this far.