Day 3 DC

Day 3 was much less structured, but we fit a lot into 1 day.  That morning Brenda took us to the Metro to ride into town and we met the cutest family from Tennessee.  It was fun to talk to them and compare stories with them about our different states.  We got off the metro down by the "Mall" and it was so hot but we decided to go to the Museum of Natural History I.e. the one in Night at the Museum and then after that we walked to the Washington Monument.  I had looked online to get tickets to go to the top, but it was a little too late and there weren't any.  We did find out when we got there, a little too late I might add, that they give away 800 tickets every day and they are usually gone by 10:00 that morning.  Note to self: the early bird gets the worm, or in this case the trip to the top of the monument.  We just continued around the mall to all of the places there, the pond, President Lincoln, the Vietnam Wall (which nobody will ever understand unless they see it in person), I even got a little emotional to see all of the names on that wall.  After that we went to the White House.  We had tried to get tickets for a tour 5 months ahead of time, but we weren't approved or something so we just got to see the outside.  We did get a taxi to take us to the White House, we were so hot that we decided it was well worth the money.  After the White House we decided we wanted to go to DC Cupcakes in Georgetown, so we got a taxi to take us to Georgetown.  It was so cute there in Georgetown and we went into some of the shops there and had lunch at Chipotle.  Then we went to the cupcake place and had to wait in line for at least a half an hour.  The cupcakes were good,  but I think our Rexburg cupcakes were even better, but it was fun, since they had their own show on TLC it was good to see.  We had to be back to Virginia by 5ish, so we ordered an Uber, since we had a free one to come get us and take us to a metro station.  Brenda called Amanda and told her she would be picking us up in a different vehicle and we found out that on the way home from dropping us off at the Metro she got in an accident and she had to get a rental since hers wasn't working.  We went to dinner that night with Amanda's brother at Brenda's friend's Thai restaurant and it was so good.  After dinner we stopped at Walmart and then headed back to the house so we could go to bed early since our flight left early the next morning.  When we got back to the house they showed us lightning bugs, it was so much fun, I have gone all my 47 years of life without seeing them, so it was something new and fun.

 

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