Best Christmas Present Ever!

My WONDERFUL husband took me on a trip to Washington D.C. this past weekend. He had to work in Richmond Virginia the next week so he took advantage of the situation and took me out a few days early with him. We left Thursday and I flew home Sunday night. We had almost three full days to see every thing we wanted in D.C. Our awesome parents were kind enough to take care of our kiddos while we were gone!!

Friday:
*Slept in until 9:00!! One of the best parts of the whole trip was staying up late and sleeping in!!
*Took metro in the National Mall
*Walked into the Natural History Museum and decided we have been to a lot of Dinosaur museums, so we turned around and walked out.
*Headed over the the American History Museum. Spent about 2 1/2 hours.
*Walked over to the National Monument
*Saw the Lincoln memorial from a distance and decided it was too far to walk to.
*Most EXCITING part of the whole trip was seeing President Obama. Yes, we saw the most powerful man in the U.S.!! We were walking up to the white house and all of the sudden a police man told us to stop walking. About a minute later here comes a police brigade speeding onto the white house grounds. About 15 police motorcycles went through, then a couple of other official vehicles and then a limo with Obama sitting in the back seat. (I thought the windows would have been heavily tinted, but they weren't.) Just as his limo was about to turn he looked in our direction and Colin gave him the finger, JK he waved at him and guess what... Obama waved back. There was only a handful of us standing there and no one else waved at him, so we feel pretty cool to know that his was waving directly at us!! Definintely the highlight of the trip!
*Made our way up to the White House. There is just something about that place that I love!
*Headed over to the Capital building
*Realized we were tired and hungry so we got dinner at D.C. Chophouse...pretty good!
*Almost went to a Wizards/Knicks basketball game, but decided we were too tired.

Saturday
*Got breakfast at Old Ebbett's Grill...very good!!
*Went to Fords Theater. It was one of our favorite sites!
*Holocaust Museum...spent 2-3 hours there. Humbling, sad, informative, interesting, horrific, inspiring. If you are ever in D.C. it is a must-see.
*Made our way to the Air & Space museum. Really cool museum, but by this time my feet hurt so bad I couldn't enjoy much of anything. Colin got more out of it than I did.
*Spent about an hour trying to decide where to eat and finally decided on a place call Ella's pizza(or something like that). It was sooooooo good!! It was one of those fancy pizza places. We got mozzarella sticks that were to die for and our pizza was almost that good. mmmm...I want to go back to eat there!!:)
*To top off our dinner we stopped at a crepe stand and got a crepe with Nutella and Strawberries. YUM!! My mouth is watering just thinking about it!!

Sunday
*Picked up Colin's work rental car
*Drove past the pentagon and then on to Arlington National Cemetery. We were able to see Jason Workman's headstone. I was really happy that were able to pay our respects to him and the other Navy Seals that died with him.
*Drove past the Temple
*Went out to Mount Vernon, but didn't go in because it cost too much money. Cool to see the grounds though!
*It was really fun driving around. I loved seeing all of the old houses.
*The hour finally came for me to go the airport. I was sad that the vacation was over, but I was really excited to see Hayden and Carson!!

Thank you Colin(who will never see this) for taking me on such an incredible trip.
Thank you Mom, Dad, Lee and Leah, we couldn't have done it without you. I love being able to leave my kids and not worry about them AT ALL!!
Wright brother airplane.
Fords Theater
John Wilkes Booth gun that he used to shoot Lincoln
Enjoying his prime rib at D.C. Chophouse

Supreme court building(I think)


Colin sitting on the steps of the National Archives where we saw the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence along with other important documents.
IRS building(I think)
The awesome White House

If you can zoom in on that black limo you can see Obama waving at us.

American History Museum(I think)

Arlington National Cemetary