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| First morning waking up on American soil |
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First donuts. He wasn't quite sure how to eat his. |
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| The view from the WWII Memorial |
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| The Korean War Memorial has the names of all of the countries who fought during the conflict. |
Ok, so these pictures got all mixed up, and I'm not very good at moving them around, but basically we started at one end of the mall and worked our way up, really only having time to see the big sights from the outside, as it was a very busy day due to the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts. Streets were being closed to allow for the parade, and so we worked our way through the area pretty quickly. We did go past the capitol far enough for me to show the kids my old stomping grounds from when I lived in D.C. in college ... and yes, they thought it was pretty cool. And for those of you who know our family's passion for getting "stamps" in our National Park Passport books, our biggest disappointment was that due to the Scouts, we couldn't get to the kiosk to get the stamps for all of the mall monuments. This guarantees that we will have to return at some time in the future.
We headed back to the airport, and had our first major meltdown of the trip by Kenenisa, who evidently was tired of being in the car. I had to unbuckle him and ride with him on my lap for a while because he was so upset. Made a quick stop at Wendy's for lunch ... getting off of the highway at the exit right by the apartment in Falls Church where I lived after college. Funny to see the little strip mall next to it looking exactly the same.
And got to Dulles just in time to be caught in an absolute downpour, unlike anything I've seen since leaving the East Coast. Met with Charlene to return her van, and after a few glitches in being able to check in, boarded our plane to finally head home to Oregon leaving at about 6:30pm. One more very long flight to make it through. Gave Ethan and Kenenisa some Dramamine to help them sleep. Kenen was asleep before we took off, and basically was out like a light for the whole flight.
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