Rainy Day

This is a rain storm from June. It's rare that it rains this hard in Utah, and I thought my Dad would enjoy this.

Washington DC Trip

Our friends in the ward invited us on a trip to Washington DC, NY and Boston. I can't say no to a trip, so off we went. My parents stayed at our house to watch the kids (THANK YOU!)
DC was great... driving around DC was not. This sign is saying the street is a one way street, but only during certain hours. I felt so bad for Danny as he drove around Dupont Circle trying to find our hotel with 3 passengers all telling him to go in different directions.

The subway was much easier, and didn't stink like NY (from a pregnant lady's nose)

Eat your hearts out everyone. We got to see the Declaration of Independence close up, under bullet proof glass, among lots of elementary tour bus kids, after waiting in line outside in the rain(we had umbrella's, the school kids didn't -suckers!) After the wait I was amazed at how no one would let me look at the document straight on, only sideways wedged... and it was very hard to read, very faded. I think the workers here are a little sick of the National Treasure questions.

The Washington Monument - They had to stop building it due to the Civil War and no money. They resumed 30 years later, but the stone in the same rock quarry looked different, so the coloring doesn't match the original structure. Who was listening to the tour guide thank you very much.

Vietnam Memorial - School kids had researched someone's life on the wall and written them a letter

Washington DC Continued

Library of Congress was our favorite building and it had lots of fun documents like the Gutenberg Bible and an impressive book collection of Thomas Jefferson's

Quote inside the Washington Monument

This picture is from inside the Washington Monument, looking out at the Thomas Jefferson Monument

White House (notice sniper on roof)

Tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington Cemetary

New York City

Ellis Island where all the immigrants arrived hoping to be let into the U.S.

Statue of Liberty - A gift from France

The Met Museum -Vincent Van Gogh up close and Oh how Chad loved the medieval section!

A rack of lamb at Gordon Ramsay's Maze Restaurant (Hell's Kitchen guy)

The four of us enjoying dessert and wishing our 9$ got us a little more. Best carrot cake ever! We also went to The Lion King and Wicked, which both rocked.

Boston

We loved Boston. If only we would of booked tickets way ahead of time to see the Sox take on the Yankees!
We stayed at this cute bed and breakfast

This photo is for David. The first REI?

We drove up the coast of Maine to eat some lobster and see the oceanside cottages/mansions. This is a cute litte store in Ogunquit, Maine.

We had to order the clam bake - I still couldn't eat the oysters.

We stopped in Salem, MA where the witch trials happend. Cute town... but sad history and creepy museum. We got monumented out at this point. When we saw Paul Revere's house we snapped a picture and said "moving on."

Warning, Spider Picture!

Under our tramp is disgusting.

We've offered to pay our nephews to clean up under there, but no takers. I wonder why...

Kate's on the move

I'm so behind on posts I have to start somewhere. Kate has grown up so much in the past month. At 7 months she starting getting up on all 4's and rocking, then 2 weeks later she was crawling. At 8 months she mastered the crawling, and now she is pulling herself up on everything.