Traveling and the Old Post Office

So we left for Washington DC on Tuesday. After much effort, we finally left the house at noon. We arrived in Woodbridge (just outside the main city) around 10pm. The reason being - kids, kids, kids. You know, Chris and I used to travel so quickly and so well. If we wanted to stop we did, but usually only for a short time. Now, when we stop, we stop for a bit. This time we stopped at a rest stop in North Carolina for almost 1 1/2 hrs. Chris slept in the van while the kids and I had a picnic lunch and then played around. I would've let them play longer, but I was already dripping with sweat and the little gnats kept getting stuck on the kids eyes and faces. So we packed up again and within a half an hour realized that for some reason I had packed all the pacifiers (to make sure we had extra), but not left more than one out which JC had promptly lost. So we stopped again. We found a Wal-Mart and grabbed some pacifiers. Eventually we did make it to Jared and Celeste's house here in DC, but not until EV had broken our DVD player after less than 10min, JC cried and complained for another hour before he fell asleep, and Lizzy had a dirty diaper. Like I said, eventually.

Don't let that fool you though! We had a lot of fun driving here.

Riding the trams: JC loves these things!

The next day (Wed the 23rd) we got up a bit late and decided we'd keep it simple for our first day since we had to learn the freeways, the trains, and the city. So we went for lunch to a place called the Old Post office. It was pretty neat.

"The Old Post Office"

On the way we saw a beautiful building which somehow became less so when we discovered it was the EPA. Anyway, the OPO was beautiful and fun inside.

We had lunch, took a tour of the tower by means of a glass elevator no less, and then had ice cream. Because of the late start we didn't make it to the National Aquarium, but we're hoping to go back another day. We had a lot of fun!

my girls waiting for lunch

Looking out over DC, don't worry it's a strong window!

Like little birdies waiting for food....mmmm ice cream!