We left West Virginia fairly early on Wednesday to head to D.C. This was Dave's main part of the trip, he (and all of us!) was so excited to see everything DC had to offer. Mom left before us to pick up Tony and Ben from the airport, then we all at Arlington Cemetery and ate lunch.
We spent a little over an hour walking around Arlington. Saw the changing of the guards, JFK and Jackie's gravesites and some others. It was super hot that afternoon so we were looking to go have a cool glass of water and some lunch after this.
Kids in front of our home for the rest of the week.
First time on the metro for the kids!
First stop was the National Archives. We really had a great visit, and we got to get in super fast and first because of mom's veteran status.
Next up was a tour of the Capitol that I had set up with my local congresswoman. One of her interns took us on a great tour, super informative.
The Hawaiian state statue was the kids' favorite.
We were all hungry after this so we headed to China Town to find something to eat. We ended up at Nando's Peri Peri because Dave is kind of obsessed with watching people eat food on YouTube and this is famous on that!
Next up was the Portrait Gallery, we wanted to see all the presidents! And it was close by :)
I loved the one of JFK.
We went back to our house, rested for a bit and had some dinner, then hit the road again to see the monuments at night. Mom decided to skip this one, we'd had a long day already!
Started off at the Washington Monument.
And finished up at the Lincoln Memorial and Vietnam Memorial. We saved the WWII Memorial for during the day later in the trip.
We had a jam-packed first couple of days but we got a lot done in a short amount of time!
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