Washington D.C. Part Two

Friday was our day to see the White House! I was so excited our congresswoman was able to secure a tour of the inside. 

Riding the metro over.

Stopped for a quick photo at the FBI building. 

On the tour. The guards were so helpful and answered all the boys' questions! :)

I had previously booked tickets to go up the Washington Monument that ended up being at the same time as our White House tour. The guards at the monument were so helpful and let us go up even though we were late!

We met back up with mom, who didn't want to go up the Washington Monument and instead went back to our airbnb to get our bags (since we couldn't take anything into the White House). We walked around some of the other sites like the World War II Memorial and then got lunch at some food trucks before going to the American History Museum. 

For dinner that night the boys and mom got Mr. Beast Burger (another internet sensation that Dave was super excited about) and the rest of us went out to eat at a great Italian restaurant called Sfoglina. 

We came back to find the kids and mom engrossed in another game of Exploding Minions. 

For our last day in DC, it was a little rainy, so we hopped on the metro to go to a couple of museums. First stop was the Museum of Natural History, which Ike was very excited for!

There's a whole section of the museum dedicated to rocks, minerals, meteors, etc. He was in heaven. 

Dave really liked the section on Egypt, but it was pretty small unfortunately.

We busted out our ponchos to go grab some lunch at Shake Shack before it was time for our Library of Congress viewing. 

The Library of Congress was really cool. Wish we could have gotten the tickets to go in and browse the books, but we were able to go to the children's section at least and get a view from up top!

We capped off the trip with some more games and then went to visit the Watermelon House which was about a block away!

 

Such a fun trip to share with the boys. Definitely glad we waited until they were older to go...we saw lots of young families and that just didn't look like nearly as much fun! Dave's favorite part of the vacation was seeing the White House and Capitol Building. Ike's favorite part was the geode section of the Natural History Museum and white water rafting!