DC

Now we’re in DC. We are seeing the sites here and having a really great time. Yesterday we arrived in the city in the afternoon and saw the White House, Washington Monument (see how big Eleanor has gotten on the trip?!), the new WWII Memorial, and Lincoln Memorial. Today we went to the house where Lincoln died (Ford’s Theater is closed for renovations), the Supreme Court and toured the Capitol Building.

We had a great day of chance activities today. We wandered into the Supreme Court and ended up spending a lot of time there looking around and even having lunch!


And then when getting tickets to go in the Senate Gallery, we were offered a personal tour by one of Sherrod Brown’s interns. It was really great. Our family got a tour that lasted more than two hours and included seeing a Senate vote, a ride on the Senate subway, time in the House gallery, and all the other sites. I wouldn’t have thought that Calvin would engage with it, but he did, making the tour a unanimous success.


Tonight Matt’s Aunt Jane had four of her five sons and their families for dinner. It was fun to see them. They are all easy to talk to, the food was good, and it was fun for Matt to see the cousins with whom much mischief seems to have been made as kids.