Monday, June 30, 2003

So, It has been a few days. Here are the latest updates on our fun filled summer.
Monday, June 30, was our monument day. We walked about 5 miles that day. Cameron was a real trooper. We started with the" big spikie thing" as Cameron nicknamed it. The rest of you might know it as the Washington monument. The kids wanted to ride the elevator up to the top, but I need to get tickets months in advance for that and so we just looked from the outside. Here is a side note. There were extra fences everywhere. I am assuming it had to with crowd control for the fourth of July. We had to take the round about way to get around the reflecting pool. so we didn't get very close to it.
We went to the World War Memorial which is very nice and quite impressive. It is very large with a big reflecting pool and fountains.
We walked from the Washington monument to the Lincoln Memorial. Again, Cameron was not impressed with the size of it. He must think everything is huge based on pictures.
We walked over to the Tidal Basin and The FDR Monument. It is a really nice memorial with lots of water features, statues and few people. I don't know if it is off the beaten path or people just don't know about it. The walk around the basin was very long and the kids were very good about it. Cameron had fun feeding the ducks.
We walked around the basin to get to the Jefferson Memorial. We made it inside just inside as the rain came down. Except Ethan that is. He apparently did not read the sign. This is Cameron on a 100 year old Bridge that we went over as we left the Jefferson memorial. When we came out the kids were starving so we headed to the nearest pretzel cart. It kind of helped, so we could carry on. We finished off the trip with a trip to the Holocaust museum. I would recommend for young children. They have a very nice kids display that walks them through the life of a young jewish boy. The display is based on a book called Daniel's house by scholastic.
We stopped on the way to the metro at the printing and engraving gift shop. Wesley was worth the most of our kids. Guess It's time to cash him in.