Melissa, Andy and the kids' Blog

Our second day we wanted to see the White House and the National Mall. Our hotel was just a few blocks from the White House so we thought we'd walk there to start our day. It was raining and we were soaked through by the time we'd made it the few blocks. On our tour the day before the tour guide told us that if the President is "home" there will always be snipers on the roof, there were snipers there on our day 1 and no snipers day 2, so either the President wasn't home or the snipers are afraid of the rain. We walked the whole perimeter of the grounds and enjoyed the rain. We amused ourselves with silly faces and Melissa's instruction to "look cute" resulted in me standing with my head tilted to one side (Zoe looks cute when she does it, so I gave it a try too). Sorry for the self portrait photos, but the kind middle eastern couple who offered to take a few pictures for us somehow managed to miss getting the White House in the ba...

Time to catch up on my blog!!!  On March 11th we left Pennsylvania for a 2 day trip in Washington D.C.  We decided that we would take the trolley on the first day.  That way we would get a good look at everything. There was so much to see, so we were only able to get off at a few stops.   Our first stop was at the Jefferson Memorial.  It had a beautiful view of D.C.            The walls of the memorial are inlayed with beautiful quotations about God and country.       Back on the trolley!   There were some cool statues on our drive to Arlington Cemetery.     Due to the trolley schedule, we only had 30 minutes to speed walk it through Arlington Cemetery, but we saw unspeakable sights.     Then we had a quick stop at the Lincoln Memorial.   We even ran into a LDS missionary couple, who were more than willing to ...