SOME PICTURES ARE POSTED BELOW I WILL POST MORE LATER I WILL TELL ABOUT MY TRIP A BIT.
I LEFT LAS VEGAS ABT 11;30p.m. ON 9-9-2010 THEY SAID WE WOULD BE ARRIVING ABOUT 45 MINUTES EARLY TO mILWAUKKIE, WISCONSIN. I CAT NAPPED 2 TIMES VERY SMALL AND THE NEXT THING I KNEW IT WAS 4:15A.M. AND WE WERE THEIR. IT WAS NICE TO BE OFF THE PLAINE. I WALKED AROUND AND FOUND WHAT I THOUGHT WAS MY GATE AFTER BEING THEIR AWILE I DECIDED TO LOOK UP ON THE DEPARTURES AND FIGURED OUT MY GATE HAD CHANGED AND I HAD TO WALK BACK THE 10 GATES TO SAME GATE I HAD GOTTEN OFF AT. IT WAS ONLY 10 GATES AWAY SO NOT SO BAD. I DID MY WAITING.IT WAS NOT 9-10-2010.
THEN IT WAS TIME TO CATCH MY FLIGHT TO DC. IT WAS PRETTY NEAT FLYING INTO DC AND SEEING THE CAPITOL & THE OTHER MONUMENTS. I CALLED SHEREE TO LET HER KNOW I LANDED AND WAS GETTING TO THE GATE. I GOT MY LUGGAGE AND SHE WAS OUT FRONT TO MEET ME. IT WAS GOOD TO SEE HER AND CK. HE HAD JSUT FALLEN ASLEEP AND WE HAD TO WAKE HIM HE WAS SO HAPPY TO SEE GRANDMA. I KISSED AND HUGGED HIM AND GOT A PRESENT OUT FOR HIM WHICH WAS A TOW TRUCK FROM THE CARS MOVIE HE LOVED IT.
WE WERE ON OUR WAY. WE WERE HEADED FOR AN ERRAND SHEREE NEEDED TO DO. SO IN THE DIRECTIONS WE WERE TAKEN THROUGH ALL OF DC AND SAW FROM A DISTANCE THE MONUMENTS ETC. BUT TOO FAST TO REALLY TAKE ANY PICTURES. WE THEN GOT TO THE ONE DESTINATION A BOOK STORE. THEN WE WENT AND SAW THE L.D.S. WASHINGTON DC TEMPLE IT SURE WAS PRETTY. WE STOPPED AND GOT OUT AND ONLY HAD A FEW MINUTES AND TOOK SOME QUICK PICTURES. CK WANTED TO SEE THE WATER FOUNTAIN WE SAID HE COULD NOT GET CLOSE AND TOUCH THE WATER. WELL YOU COULD NOT ANYWAY THE WAY THEY HAD THE FLOWERS ALL AROUND IT SO TIGHT SO THAT WAS A GOOD THING. IT WAS OVER CAST AND COOL DAY. WE GOT BACK IN THE CAR WE GOT A FEW BLOCKS AND I NOTICES MY MONEY I HAD GOTTEN OUT FOR LUNCH WAS NO WHERE ON MY SEAT THINKING I MIGHT OF HAD IT FALL OUT OF THE CAR WHEN I GOT OUT AT THE TEMPLE SO SHEREE WENT AND DROVE BACK AND SURE ENOUGH IN THE PARKING LOT WAS ALL OF MY MONEY STROON OVER. KIND OF FUNNY. IT WA SONLY $5.00 BUT HEY THAT WAS NICE THAT IT WAS THE TMEPLE AND IT WAS ON THE GROUNF THEIR WAS ONLY A SMALL BREEZE.
SO WE HEADED OFF TO ONE OF THE FAST FOOD BUT COULD NOT FIGURE ANY WAY TO GET IT LET ALONE PARK OR ANYTHING. WE GAVE UP AND HEADED TO HANS WORK TO PICK HIM UP. WE FINALLY GOT THEIR. BACK ON THE FREEWAY AND ON OUR WAY OUT I SAW THE PENTAGON THAT WAS NEAT. THIS WAS FROM THE FREEWAY. WE DID STOP BY MCDONALDS FOR OUR VERY LATE LUNCH WHICH WAS ALSO MY BREAKFAST. THEN WE ARRIVED AND THEIR PLACE. SO I HAD BEEN TO WISCONSIN, DC, MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA ALL IN ONE DAY. I WAS JET LAG BUT HAPPY. CK WAS HAPPY TO SHOW ME AROUND HIS PLACE AND HIS BED ROOM WE PLAYED IN HIS ROOM ALOT WITH HIS TOYS AND READ BOOKS AND TOOK PICTURES. HE KEPT SAYING "GRANDMA I LOVE YOU" MY HEART WOULD MELT. BEDTIME CAME LATE FOR EM IT TOOK SO LONG TO FALL ASLEEP.
NEXT WE HAD DECIDED NOT TO GO INTO DC THE NEXT DAY BECAUSE IT WOULD BE 9-11 ANNIVERSARY AND WOULD BE VERY CROWDED SO WE JUST STAYED IN ALEXANDRIA AREA. NEXT MORNING HANS MADE US ALL HOMEMADE PAN CAKES AND HE EVEN MADE ME MY GLUTEN FREE ONES. HOW NICE WAS HE. THEY WERE VERY GOOD. THEN SHEREE AND I WERE OFF TO THE MOUNT VERNON MANSION HOUSE AND PROPERTY. IT SURE WAS NEAT WE COULD TAKE PICTURES EVERYWHERE BUT INSIDE THE HOUSE SO WE WALKED AROUND THE GROUNDS FOR AWHILE BEFORE OUR TOUR BEGAN. THEIR IS ALOT OF PROPERTY TO IT. IT WAS NEAT GOING BACK IN TIME. WHEN I WENT INSIDE THE HOUSE AND BEGAN THE WALK UP THE STAIRS I WAS IN AWE OF THE PAST AND OF OUR 1ST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I WAS A LITTLE EMOTIONAL INSIDE. THE INSIDE THEY PUSHED YOU THROUGH SO FAST. OUTSIDE YOU COULD TAKE YOUR TIME. THEY SAID IN THE SUMMER OVER 1 MILLION VISTORS THEN. I WAS GREATFUL FOR NICE WEATHER IN THE 70'S.
THEN WE WALKED OUT THE BACK AND SAW MORE OF THE POTOMAC RIVER AND THE BACK OF THE HOUSE. SHEREE AND I SAT ON THE CHAIRS THEY HAD OUT ON THE BACK PORCH I WANTED A PICTURE THEIR. EARLY ON WE SAW THE STABLES AND CARRIAGE HOUSE AND SAW GEORGE WASHINGTON'S ON ORGINAL CARRIAGE HOW EXCITTING. WE THEN WALKED DOWN TO SEE THE SPOT OF HIS ORGINIAL TOMB AND THE NEWER ONE HE HAD PUT IN HIS WILL TO BE BUILT TO HOLD EVERYONE, . THAT WAS A NEAT AND SPECIAL AREA. THEN YOU MAKE YOUR WAY BACK OUT. WE THEN WENT AND CAME BACK OUT AND SAW SOME OTHER THINGS AND THE ORGINAL PAINTING OF THE PRAYER AT VALLEY FORGE. SO NEAT THAT IS A PICTURE WE JUST GAVE OUR SON BROCK FOR HIS BIRTHDAY. WE THEN WENT INSIDE THE GIFT SHOP AND BOUGHT A FEW SOVINEERS.
THE AFTERNOON HANS, SHEREE, CK AND I HEADED FOR GREAT FALLS NATIONAL PARK ON THE VIRGINIA SIDE. IT SURE WAS NEAT SEEING THEM. WE WENT TO LOOK OUTS AND I TOOK MANY PICTURES. WE DID GET SOMEONE TO TAKE OURS AND WE TOOK THEIRS IN RETURN. THIS IS THE POTOMAC RIVER AND YOU COULD SEE OVER TO THE MARYLAND SIDE. WE WERE ONLY THEIR A SHORT TIME BUT WE ENJOYED IT. CK DID TOO. WE CAME HOME AND I BABYSAT WHILE THEY WENT TO THE STORE CK AND I PLAYED . HANS MADE PANAINA BUT MINE A WAS WITH MY BROWN RICE TORTIAS AND GRILLED AND VERY GOOD AND TASTY. THEN SHEREE AND I HEADED TO WALMART TO GET A FEW THINGS. FOR DESSERT HANS MADE SMOOTHIES. WE ENOYED A NICE EVENING.
SUNDAY THE 9-12
I JUST WAS WIPED OUT AND NEVER MADE IT TO CHURCH BUT SLEPT AND GOT CAUGHT BACK UP ON SOME SLEEP. WE VISITED AFTER AND CK AND I PLAYED ALOT. HE LIKES TO COME IN THE MORNING AND SNUGGLE.
MONDAY THE 9-13
SHEREE BABYSAT AND CK CAME IN AND SNUGGLED WITH ME. WE WERE UP LATER AND WE ALL WENT FOR A WALK. CK, SHEREE AND I AND THE GIRL SHEREE BABYSITS. WE WENT IN THE LITTLE WOODS BEHIND THIR HOUSE AND DEVIDEDS THE HOUSES FROM WHERE THEY LIVE. CK SAW A DRAGON FLY, BUTTERFLYS AND SQUIRREL AND PEOPLE WALKING DOGS. THEN WE CAME BACK AND CK AND GRANDMA WENT TO THE LITTLE PARK WITH MERRY GO ROUND, SWINGS, SLIDES AND OTHER THINGS. HE HAD SO MUCH FUN AND WE BOTH WERE SWINGING. WE CAME BACK GRANDMA READ TO HIM AND PLAYED WITH HIM. LATER I LET HIM USE MY CAMERA AND PHONE AND TAKE PICTURES HE LIKED THAT.
TOMORROW THE 14 WE WILL BE GOING TO THE BUTTER FLYS AT THE NATURAL HISTORY MUESEUM WE ARE TAKING THE BUS TO THE TRAIN AND INTO DC. AND THE NEXT DAY WE ARE GOING ON A TOUR TO THE CAPITOL AND WILL GO THE SAME WAY. FRI. AND SAT. WE WILL BE GOING ON A BUS TOUR OF DC AND ON SAT. HANS WILL GO WITH US.
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