Wenesday

Chronicle #3
•Washington Monument. Also called by the boys the 'Washington Umomoment'. Fabulous name right? It had a fabulous view. You know on all of those postcards with the White House the house is set upon beautiful hills with nothing but sky to surround it? Well that is a lie and a truth at the exact same time. It actually has visible buildings behind it, but hey, it is set on quite the hill. You could see the Lincoln Memorial, but the lake in front of it was drained.
•After the Monument we went to the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, and that was pretty stinking cool. We got to see the new 100 dollar bill, plus all of the money being printed and such. It was pretty cool, but you aren't allowed to take pictures on the tour, so that was a bit of a bummer.

☺ Hugs and Love to all at home and family!

Tuesday

Chronicle #2
TUESDAY!!!!!!
•Smithsonian Natural History Museum.  There were so many animal and fossils and all things nature here and I thought that it was pretty stinking amazing. The first thing that we saw were the Oceanic creatures. there was a huge giant (repetitive word choice☺) squid that was like 36 feet long. Then there was this super-humongous blue whale that was really cool. It made everyone look like a dinky little dwarf people. After that we went to the dinosaur fossils. The coolest thing there was the fish that swam in water and walked on the mud and dirt. (went to go pick up Benjamin and this was what Colton typed-the coolest thing there was a cousin of mine named Colton. After that, there was a butterfly exhibit that paled in comparison.) Next was the butterfly exhibit and there were butterflies EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!! It was really cool because you actually got to be in a terrarium with all of the butterflies. We went to the gift shop where I bought gifts for two little girls that live in Idaho + Mom and Dad.

•Old post office building. We got to go to the top and had a truly awesome view of all of D.C, plus a little more.

•Smithsonian American History. Original Kermit the Frog. Fonzie's (Happy Days) leather jacket. Dorothy's ruby red slippers.  One of the first Dumbo Car rides from a newly opened Disneyland. The works.
Love it here. Miss you all at home! 

So....

Chronicle #1
Monday
•Library of Congress. Super interesting. People might think that there are so many places to be in D.C. , why be in some old library. This opinion may be slightly biased, as I am a particular fan of books (this goes to show when I did my thesis paper in language class on books)but the Library was about as historically (?) cool as it gets.

•Supreme Court Justice.  Quite cool, and we listened to a lecture on the court  that had stuff that you would never know about. Like that when this architect guy built the building, he didn't think that the Supreme Court's library would fit into the room, so he left extra room above the courtroom for the overflow books. After several years, the people who worked there cleared it out and brought exercise equipment in. Then, someone brought in a ball and hoop, thus starting a basketball craze. After that, they asked for a full sized basketball court, and it appeared. So, the Supreme court has got a full sized b-ball court above their heads. However, even though there is a court, workers are only allowed to play after 5:30 because otherwise everyone can hear the ball bouncing.

•Capitol Building. Jenny got us a really cool tour by one of her friends named Noelle. It was super cool to see all the work that had been put into it so many years ago. It was so pretty and it had all of these beautiful ceilings and marble floors and just was pretty stinking breathtaking.
1st day in D.C. ROCKED!!!!!!!!!!!

I just HAPPEN to be......

in Quantico, Virginia.  With Jenny.  And Eric.  And Isaac and Seth and little bitty Benjamin. And Colton, who just HAPPENS to be here with me.  And oh dear, to those who are reading this from faraway (like Idaho-which HAPPENS to be 4 hour airplane ride from here) I just HAPPEN to be extremely glad that I brought a suitcase filled entirely with shorts. And T-shirts.  Because, not to be a braggart, it is so warm here I sweated on a 40 minute downhill mini-hike, whereas in Idaho I would have possibly gotten hypothermia. To those who don't live in Idaho, I was exaggerating a little. Alright, more than a little. Kind of a lot.  But let us not dwell on my ,uh, fibs. But only when I'm exaggerating. I never ever lie, ever, even when they are little fibs.
     So....I just HAPPEN to have decided to update you, every day. This Chronicles is called My (+Colton's) Adventures in Washington D.C. ☺