WOW! It seems like I just had her yesterday! Where does the time go? If you would've asked me 2 years ago wher I'd be today, I certainly wouldn't have told you here. Since we've only been here a short time and she hasn't had a chance to really make any friends, we had our own little party for her. It lasted most of the weekend really. I've noticed that about birthdays around here. We rarely ever celebrate in just one day. We celebrate them over several days. Our birthday festivities started with a day trip to D.C. on Saturday.Not my most brilliant idea. UGGGHHHH! My head hurts just thinking about it. Ya know how every now and then you get an idea in your head which may not be the best idea? It's then that you need your friends to step in and tell you it might not be the most brilliant thing you've ever come up with. Well, I'm sad to say you guys failed me this time! LOL!!! It completely slipped my mind that this was Veterans Day weekend! I remebered though when we were passing by the US Capitol and nearly every street in the entire area was closed to traffic. 
Only thing was it was too late to turn back LOL! It took over an hour and a half to find a place to park but once we did everything was really great. Security certainly was tight though. First, we took the kids to the National Aquarium. They really liked it. I liked it ok, but it wasn't really what I was expecting. I thought there would be more to see and some more interesting things as well. We did get to meet a couple of little alligators named Crunchy and Munchy though. After that, we headed out and walked around the Monument. I was supposed to get tickets ahead of time for us to go up to the top of it but it completely slipped my mind. Of course by the time we got there they were all gone. Oh 
well...we'll catch it next time. If any of you ever plan on visiting the D.C. area, you'd better plan on staying a good week. There are so many things to do and see. Cassie also wanted to go to the National Museum of Natural History. That was fine with me until we got there and I realized that every other tourist in D.C. was in there too. Trying to keep warm I presume. There was enough body heat in that place to start a fire. We did a walk through of everything and spent a little extra time looking at the gems since that was her favorite part. **Note to self** Never ever ever go back to D.C. on Veterans Day weekend, Memorial Day weekend, or the 4th of July. Ya just wouldn't believe it...it was madness I tell ya...lol. We did have a lot of fun though and I really do love walking around in the middle of D.C.
Only thing was it was too late to turn back LOL! It took over an hour and a half to find a place to park but once we did everything was really great. Security certainly was tight though. First, we took the kids to the National Aquarium. They really liked it. I liked it ok, but it wasn't really what I was expecting. I thought there would be more to see and some more interesting things as well. We did get to meet a couple of little alligators named Crunchy and Munchy though. After that, we headed out and walked around the Monument. I was supposed to get tickets ahead of time for us to go up to the top of it but it completely slipped my mind. Of course by the time we got there they were all gone. Oh 
well...we'll catch it next time. If any of you ever plan on visiting the D.C. area, you'd better plan on staying a good week. There are so many things to do and see. Cassie also wanted to go to the National Museum of Natural History. That was fine with me until we got there and I realized that every other tourist in D.C. was in there too. Trying to keep warm I presume. There was enough body heat in that place to start a fire. We did a walk through of everything and spent a little extra time looking at the gems since that was her favorite part. **Note to self** Never ever ever go back to D.C. on Veterans Day weekend, Memorial Day weekend, or the 4th of July. Ya just wouldn't believe it...it was madness I tell ya...lol. We did have a lot of fun though and I really do love walking around in the middle of D.C. Cassie has already opened up her b-day presents. I made a not for her saying that I'm taking her to New York City on the 8th of next month and she's SO excited! Me too!! I can't hardly wait :)
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