Days 2- 7 of our D.C. trip

Day 2:

We visited the Gettysburg museum and battlefield. These were both very interesting. Nick loved this part of the trip. He hasn't stopped talking about his fascination with the different fences they had on the battlefield. But...we actually forgot to take pictures of them!

We then moved on to Hershey World. This was fun. We got to take a ride through the "factory" (it was simulated) which was very cool to see.

These pictures are from the simulated ride through the factory

This one is for you, Mason!

Mason LOVES chocolate milk. When I saw these huge chocolate syrup bottles I knew I had to get him one. Then I saw the $15.00 price tag and decided a picture of it would do!

Last, we drove by the Lincoln Financial Headquarters (which is the company Nick works for). It was cool for Nick to get a mental picture of the building that many of the people he communicates with throughout the week work in.

After this, we travelled to Lancaster, PA where we were blessed tremendously to watch the play/musical called Joseph at the Sight & Sound Theater. WOW.

Go see it. Seriously.

Day 3 & 4:

Well, we don't have ANY pictures from these days but we had great fun. We stayed with a loving hospitable church family, toured Lancaster county, shopped at 2 candy stores, visited the old home of Nick's aunt and uncle including some of their great friends, had a wonderful dinner with the church family and some of Nick's extended family that now live out there, toured a life size replica of the Tabernacle, attended one of our churches in Philadelphia, P.A., sang at a nursing home to some of the sweetest elderly ever, and visited the Liberty Bell in Philly.

Day 5: In pictures...I'm tired of typing which means you're probably realllllllly tired of reading!

First experience on the metro...yes we were a bit nervous...

Nick became very obsessed with taking the"perfect" picture...Of course they all included the absolute worst view of me possible...LOL...

Arlington Cemetary -exhaustion hits...

Tough guys...

Isn't this memorial phenomenally large!?!

Celebrating LeAnn's 50th Birthday with dessert at the Melting Pot...YUM!

Day 6: Also in D.C.

Okay so have you ever seen one of these??? They are men (in our case an 18 year old boy on spring break) who pull people around for a living! So fun! We hired a kid to take us about 10 blocks.

About half way through, Nick was feeling really sorry for the poor kid so this converstaion followed:

Nick: "Hey, could I peddle for awhile?"

Kid: Quite surprised, "Um...okay, sure."(he stops, jumps off and then asks, "Um...should I just run beside you?"

Nick: "What?!? NO way - get on there!"

So - the kid sits beside me in the carraige and Nick peddles his heart out! The boy kept saying things like, "Wow...I've never ridden in the back of one of these." "This is weird, why would you want to do this?"

Nick kept saying things like, "Man! this is harder than I thought!" and "You've got to be exhausted!"

Of course, I sat quietly and enjoyed my relaxing (and humorous) ride!

After our tour of the capital...

All in all, we had a great time, but were thankful to make it home safely to our children! Thanks a ton to those of you who prayed for us!