What a weekend

Two weekends ago Mike and I decided to go DC. Its moments like this that we truly love our central New England location that allows us to take weekend trips all over the east coast. We left after work on Friday so that we would have all day Saturday to enjoy a small portion of what DC has to offer.

We started our day with a tour of the capitol building. We didn't get to see the rooms that the House and Senate occupy because it was the weekend but the tour was still pretty interesting.

This is the mural on the top of the arch of the capitol building.

Each state sent in two statues to be displayed in the capitol building. It is no surprise that Brother Brigham was one of Utah's.

After we went on the tour we went to the library of Congress, but we didn't get to see anything too cool in there.

While we were there. We were able to participate in the Conservative tea party. It was actually really cool. The energy was amazing and it was nice to be around people who share my disapproval with the government and don't worship our President like he is the messiah.

There are mixed reports on how many people where here but I think 1.5 million is accurate.

Read everything on this movie poster. Its funny.

BAH!

After we made our way out of the sea of people we walked down the national mall to the Washington Monument.

Then we walked down to the White House to meet our mutual friend Nina for lunch. She just started an internship and graduate school in DC so it was fun to have her catch us up on her crazy new life.

After lunch we checked out the Smithsonian's.

My favorite is the Museum of American History.

Then we walked down to the national archives to see historical documents like the magna carta, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, and even court documents like Mayberry vs. Madison and Roe vs. Wade.

While waiting in line to view the documents Mike thought to tell me that his 5th Great-Grandpa signed the Constitution. I couldn't get the picture the right way so if you look at it sideways he is the last person in the New Jersey group, Jonathan Dayton. Petty cool. Since Mikes middle name is Dayton we'd already decided to name our first boy Dayton, so know its even cooler.

After all that we met up with one of my best friends from College, Sarah, who is living in DC. We went with her to the WWII memorial. My grandpa fought in this war.

O-H-....

The Wash. Monument's reflection in the Vietnam Wall.

Honest Abe!

Korean War memorial.

We headed up to Georgetown for dinner and some shopping that night. Very cute and classy.

Our friends Ryan and Brooke Naylor were kind enough to give us their spare bedroom while we were there. It was good to see them and catch up.

Sunday morning we were feeling ambitious and decided to break up our 4 hour trip home with a stop in Philadelphia.

We naturally had a Philly Cheese Stake for lunch. I was not personally a fan. I didn't like all the meat and cheese I felt like I gained 5 lb. by just eating it.

After lunch we went to see the Liberty Bell. I loved it! I learned so much about the freedom Bell!

A statue exhibiting the excitement that went along with the signing of the Deceleration of Independence.

Independence Hall

The room where the Constitution and DoI was signed. The freedom of our country was drafter here! Sooo cool.

We were home by 5pm. It was a great weekend we feel so lucky to be able to go to see all these cool places.