Sesame Place!

Our trip was not finished after picking Adam up in VA. We drove 5 more hours up to Sesame Place. This was the greatest place in the whole wide world. I loved it..the boys loved it...we want to go again.

We stayed the whole day and drove home the 5 hours that night. All in all it was 2200 miles driven. All but 180 by me. We are happy to be home.

Onward!

From DC we drove a quick 2 hours...ok it took us 4 hours to Charlottesville, VA. Here I was to drop Adam off for a big math conference. The boys and I stayed over night and left at about 7:45am to make the 5 hour drive to Weaverville, NC where my brothers are living in my parents house. Well...about 3o minutes into the mountains with barely any cell coverage the van decided in no longer liked a hose that attached to the radiator. It was so angry it destroyed the radiator on its way out. The boys rode in a cop car ( I had to flag one down since my road side assistance could not be contacted) Jacob and I road in the tow truck. Four hours and $500 bucks later we were on the way again. I think Adam owes me a bit for this one. Sitting in a tiny mechanics office for 4 hours with the boys just plan sucked.

But we made it to the house and started to party with the Uncles.

Bonfire night!

We found a jumpy thing at the mall. Our mall got rid of the one that we usually take the boys to so they were thrilled to go on this one.

It was still fairly hot on the east coast so on the last day visiting the uncles we got the sprinklers out.

I think my boys worked these guys pretty good.

Washington DC trip

We had to change a few of our vacation plans after Alex's surgery. Originally Janice was going to watch Alex and Jonathan while Jacob and I went with Adam to his conference in Atlanta. We decided that it was best that I stayed to make sure Alex's recovery went smoothly. He had only been out of the hospital for 2 days when Adam left and it was hard for him to be away from home.

Janice helped out a lot when Adam was gone.

Our trip to DC was not changed even when a yucky stomach flu ran through the house. Jacob and I were missed which was very nice for me. I was able to pack, clean the house and take care of sickies. I also drove the whole 12 hours to DC. It really should have only taken 8.

We arrived and had a blast the whole time.

The boys fav: the Washington Monument.

Mine was the Lincoln memorial. We were very bummed when we discovered that the pond was being renovated.

It was tremendously hot out so we spent lots of time finding shade. The Washington Memorial gave plenty for this good shot.

This was about as close as we got to the White House. It was memorial day weekend and we ran into all sorts of tour bus issues and the Rolling Thunder parade which lasts about 10 hours.

Our fav part was the American History museum. The boys just had a blast and it was in the AC which was great considering it was well over 90 outside and Adam and Janice were still not 100% recovered.

the boys on the old fashioned buses they had set up.

The only family picture could get.

Love him.

This poor boy did not sleep well on this trip. Not set naptime gave for very poor sleeping at night. Which meant I got very bad sleep as well.

I love the DC shirt.

Here are the boys hanging out in front of the Capitol Building talking about history.

PEACE!

It was over 100 degrees on day 2. Since our tour bus wasn't running we had to walk way too much. At one point we found some shade and Adam ran (I mean actually ran) 3 blocks to get water and Popsicles. He was just about dead when he got back to us but our yummys were still frozen.

The last of the 3 days our tour bus was running and we made use of it. We got to see a lot of the memorials that we couldn't walk too.

Jefferson Memorial

View of the White House from Jefferson Memorial.

Lincoln Memorial

Always wanted to sit on those steps. Just like in the movies.

We finished off our National Mall tour with the Natural History Museum. Of course, the bugs were the best part.

After dropping Janice off at the Dulles airport Adam and I headed out to the National Zoo with the boys. This was another very hot day and we spend most of the time searching for the misters.

The boys made some new friends.

Lovely!

Well, that was our trip to DC. We had such a great time. Hopefully we can go again when it is not quite so hot and not a national holiday.