Road trip: Round two

This weekend we drove to Washington, DC. I know I said I didn't want to drive any farther than the grocery store but I really wanted to go before we left NC. We left early Saturday morning and got there about noon. We took the boys to the National Zoo. Josh loved it. We only had time and energy to see a small portion of it. It's a huge zoo.









After that we drove to our hotel (only a mile away). Our hotel was great. The room was huge and it had a nice big bed. A big bed is essential when you have to share it with Josh- he sleeps horizontal. Nothing like getting kicked in the small of your back. After we checked in we walked down Connecticut Ave and ate dinner at Buca De Beppo. YUMMY!
The next morning we woke up early and hit the town. We started with taking the metro to the Eastern Market. That was fun. We got some apple fritters and ate them in a nice shaded play area.
We got back on the metro and headed to the Natural History Museum. Josh loved that too. Although by this time, he started to get quite cranky. So we buzzed through that and then got some lunch.



Next on the agenda was the Lincoln Memorial but, being we started walking the wrong way...we never made it. By this time it was about 92 degrees with about 75% humidity. YIKES!! Our poor little boys were melting. We stopped to take a break in some shade and that was nice. Josh really enjoyed being able to take his shoes off and tackle Daddy.



By this time though, Josh was done walking and insisted that he get his turn in the stroller. So I held Nikki and made a little do-rag for him out of his burp cloth so he wouldn't get sunburned. Unfortunately we didn't get a picture of that. It was just too stinking hot to stop and do photos. We busted our butts to the nearest metro and went back to the car.
Of course by the time we reached our car we had cooled off from our ride on the metro. And being we were parked right by the White House... We threw Josh in his stroller, put Nikki back in his stroller, and headed off to see more sights. Both boys promptly fell asleep and we were able to enjoy our stroll around the White House and even get a few pics in.





After that it was about 4:00 and we decided to head home. We would have driven by the Iwo Jima monument but, we took a wrong turn. Oh well. We had a great time anyway.
When we got home poor Josh was so tired he didn't even want to go with Nathan to pick up our dog. (Thank you again to Liz and Rick for watching Grr for us). Josh just ran up the stairs giggling and jumping- happy to be home. I got his pj's on him and he ran to his room to go to bed. If only he was that eager to go to bed every night. Ah well. Another successful road-trip. Next trip: Salt Lake City!!! (BY AIRPLANE- WAHOOOO)