DC/Virginia Trip '12 cont'd

After a couple days of touring DC area, Brady got a couple days off and we all went on a mini-road trip to Virginia Beach. We stopped at a little diner on our way for some good breakfast...and grits.

When we got to our hotel we had a little pool time before hitting up the beach.

Here's one of the cute entrances to the beach. There was a different theme for each little entrance.

Sand baby!

Miss her!

For dinner we went to another place on Lane's list from Triple D. This place was called Beach Pub and it had all-you-can-eat flounder. Lane was saving up the most calories for this place (although we ate a lot prior to). It was also pretty delicious. All the restaurants he chose from Triple D were so worth it!

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It was one of those restaurants that provide you with crayons to draw on your place mat and they hang a lot of those pictures on the wall...so I found it appropriate to draw Guy Fieri, since he helped make it famous. I don't know if it made it on the wall, but I'd like to think it did.  ;)

During relax time, Leo and I had a little chalk therapy outside. Have I ever mentioned how cute this kid is?

We went down to the beach again that night and got some ice cream. There was a band playing in a little amphitheater, and some older couples were gettin' their grooves on so we found it entertaining to sit and watch. I was impressed with the town, it was pretty cute!

Leo got chocolate-wasted and grew a chocolate goatee. He was gettin' his groove on too.

Another cute entrance

Cute mama with baby May

Oh those boys...

Our time quickly came to an end. I don't like goodbyes, and not only did I have to say bye to my best friend again and favorite lil' Leo, but there was another cute face added to the sadness.

We sure do love this little Harker family. We built some great memories with them. It was like nothing changed since they moved (other than the addition to the family) and we already miss them like crazy. Thanks for the great trip, tours, hospitality, and memories Brady, Leah, Leo and May! We love you!

DC/Virginia Trip '12

I experienced my first red eye flight to the east coast. I wasn't a fan ... but it was worth it! We had such a great trip visiting our friends and touring DC and Virginia. I didn't feel like we were doing very much while we were there, until I looked through our pictures, and then I realized we did so much in that short 5 days! The first day while Brady was at work, Leah took us on a tour of the monuments and memorials:

The White House

Washington Monument

 WWII Memorial

MLK Jr Memorial

Jefferson Memorial

Korean War Memorial

Lincoln Memorial

This was my favorite! I don't know why but I was so excited to actually see this one in person.

We got to experience the Metro plenty. I know you're just supposed to look at the map and the different colored lines, but I think I would need more than a week to figure that out. It's too hectic, confusing, and rude for me. I'll stick with driving my car down a couple one-ways here in the valley!

Library of Congress

Lane planned out all our meals; mostly by researching the best restaurants from Diners Drive-Ins and Dives. The first stop on his list was Ben's Chili Bowl. I'll tell you what - there was a reason Guy Fieri decided to film there! ~SO delicious~ Great service, spectacular food, decent pricing, and famous (byPresident Obama, Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, and others).

The second day we spent more time touring different lines of the Metro rather than touring the city (we took some wrong trains). Our first destination was China Town. It was pretty pathetic. These pictures were about it for the town. We ate at a restaurant there; which was okay.

We stopped at the Natural History Museum. It wasn't very exciting, but Leo was pretty cute with the huge elephant at the entrance! He had gone to the zoo prior to our visit and when they went over to the elephants, the elephants were "hiding in the rocks." Well he obviously hadn't gotten over the fact that they were hiding, so the whole time we were there he walked around saying. "ele-fents..hidingin..therocks." Pretty stinkin' cute, that kid is.

After taking a break and playing with those cute kids (Leo and May) in the park...

...we walked around Georgetown (the college town) to find the next restaurant on Lane's list, Good Stuff Eatery. We did a lot of walking for this one, but again, it was worth it! We had some amazing burgers! Plus, we got to see so many "out-of-a-movie" cute homes like these:

Next time we go there I would like to visit the Holocaust Museum. We would have gone but we wanted to actually spend time with Brady, Leah and the kids and it just wasn't realistic to bring the kids in; but, there's another excuse to go visit them again!