WASHINGTON DC

This past week I had the privilege of going to DC for Perry's graduation. (He graduated from NADA dealer academy) and we got to spend a few extra days seeing some of the sights. It was great!-too bad its over already.
I flew in on Wednesday evening and Thursday Perry had class all day so I got to shop my heart out at the mall. They had every store you could imagine! Hours at the mall with no kids=one very happy girl. Perry's graduation lunch.

His graduating class. (I have to brag-He graduated 1st in his class might I add)

Some of his buddies from class.

Right after graduation on Friday we changed hotels and headed to downtown DC. That night we walked around and saw the white house. (this is the back side of the house-coudn't get a good picture from the front)

National Christmas tree

While we were in DC we enjoyed lots of good food..

The next day (Saturday) we went to the American history museum and holocaust museum. Here are pics of the American history museum.

Abe Lincolns wife's inauguration dress. (They had all the first lady's dresses)

Perry posing by Lincoln's top hat.

You can see the Lincoln memorial way off in the distance. (do you like my shoes?? I am a nerd- I opted for comfort over style. )

Washington Monument.

In front of Lincoln Memorial

That night we went to see the play the Christmas Carol at Ford's theater. The play was awesome!! Below is a picture of the balcony booth where he was shot and killed. They still have the original chair and couch in there. The next day (Sunday) we went to the air and space museum (How about a smile Perry?)

We went to the imax and saw a 3D show about the hubble-very cool

Original plane of the Wright brothers.

After the space museum we rode the metro and bus to Mount Vernon where George Washington lived. This was his mansion. It was totally rainy and we arrived 4 hours early because we had heard there was alot to do. When we got there they wouldn't let us walk the grounds or anything because of the rain and mud so we went to the gift shops and grabbed some grub and twiddled our thumbs for a couple hours!! Oops-my bad!! (no I did not take this picture-the one I took didn't turn out because it was dark)

At least we were able to go see the George Washington museum for a half hour before they closed. It was neat-they had all of his old war knifes and her jewelry and letters they had written to each other. etc. (lots of valuables in the museum as there were police men patroling the whole thing)

We hung out around this Christmas tree for hours since our tickets for the tour weren't until 7:45! LOLSeeing the inside of the mansion was really cool-but we couldn't take pictures-so here are some of the outside-this was her spinning room.This was their greenhouse-where they had dancing. They taught me a little dance-but I couldn't get Perry to join in on the fun. (ignore the weird spots all over the picture-I think the lens was wet or something) We had to leave early the next morning to come home. (4 am our time!!) We were a little tired to say the least. It was fun to see the kiddos when we got home. (we missed them) Im not sure how much they missed us as Logan keeps asking if she can go stay at Chelsey's again. I know she had fun at Mammy's too and Brittani's. We gave Logan a blue sucker from our trip and she was in heaven. Now its back to real life..bleh