DC

Living on the east coast provided us with so many fun places to visit!  On our way home, we stopped through Washington, D.C. for a day.  Though only a short visit, we had a lot of fun!

riding the very long LOOOONNNNGGG escalator to the metro

Waiting for the metro to take us to the mall.  The metro in DC is WAY cleaner and cooler than  NYC.  Maybe New York can take some hints.

Eating from the hands of a caveman in the Museum of Natural History.

Not to mention, i had a glorious summer tan... I miss it dearly.

guess who!!  While in the museum, we learned a bit about Greg's heritage.  He is obviously a direct descendent of neanderthals.  I'm not lying. 

Take a look at the sign below.

it might as well be his silouhette.

After walking through a few museums, Greg's feet began to ache really badly.  He wanted to find some moleskin to put over his four new blisters.  Also, some insoles for a little extra support.  We walked a healthy distance to the nearest CVS pharmacy.  We ended up right by the white house!  We  hadn't planned on walking up that way, but it worked out great!

The back of the whitehouse.  I thought it was kinda funny there was a uhaul parked outside.  Also, there was a sniper on the roof with a gun.  Intense!

Beanie at the front of the whitehouse.  It isn't as impressive as I expected.

Washington Monument.  This was actually the tallest man made monument until the Eiffel Tower!  Betcha didn't know that one.

 The World War 2  monument has towers representing each of the states.  We snapped some pictures of all of the places we had lived this year, up to this point. 

starting with California! 

We lived in the Santa Clarita Valley at the beginning of the year.

Next, Utah. 

This year, Utah was more of a place for a few pit stops.  Good ol Roy.

Then Delaware.  We were in the Philly office with APX.  

Bear, Delaware, to be specific.

After snapping some photos, we decided to lay on the edge of the WWII Monument pond and cool down our feet.  It was a good break after being on our feet all day.  This picture is our view from where we were laying.

and here is Bean's "my feet hurt" face.  I felt so bad for all of his blisters.  Yeouch!

taken sideways with my phone and it WILL NOT rotate... oh well!

 We walked up to the Lincoln Memorial just before sunset. 

It was the perfect time of day.

Our farewell to the city.  A bicycle taxi ride back to the Metro.  Saved our exhausted selves and extra 30 minute walk.  Totally worth it.  The guy was super cool too! 

Farewell DC!!