Washington DC - Day 5

This was our big tourist day. We walked and walked and walked. We did as many monuments in one day as we could. We started our day at the White House. Tayson was more interested in the squirrels than in the actual White House.

Then we hiked it all the way up to the Lincoln Monument.

In this picture I'm at the top of the Lincoln Monument and Tayson and Todd are at the bottom holding up their hands...you have to look close.




It was super hot and we were very sweaty so Tayson decided to take off his shirt.

While I was in line buying some ice cold water the girls in front of me were talking about how deceiving it is to call this place "The Mall". I mean there aren't any shops and it's all outside. HA!
Tayson took this picture and I absolutely LOVE it. I think Todd looks so hot in this picture. Both in looks and actual temperature.

The Korean War Monument

The WWII Monument

Tayson told Todd and I we aren't from Utah so we had to get our pictures with California and "St. Louis" as Tayson called it.

I was facebooking what we were doing when Todd snapped this picture then made fun of me.

The Washington Monument

The guys next to us did a way cooler pose than we did...next time maybe Tayson and I can pull out our best break-dancing pose.

This is as close to the Capital as we got. We were so hot and hungry by this point.

We went to lunch at the American History Museum. It was close and air conditioned. It was expensive and I didn't love my lunch very much. But it was air conditioned and close...did I already mention that?


After lunch Steve picked us up in his air conditioned mini van...have I mentioned how hot it was? He drove us to the Jefferson Memorial or "Jeff's Memorial" as Tayson calls it.

Allen took this picture of us - the only one I have of all 3 of us together on this trip.

Ryan, Allen and Tayson

There were so many pictures of my rear on the camera and several times Tayson said "dad just took a picture of your bum mom." Nice.

This picture makes me laugh. The kid is HILARIOUS to me.

Steve was so awesome to pick us up and drive us around

We went to another Air & Space Museum out by the Dulles Airport. It had lots of planes, helicopters, missiles and a space shuttle. It was awesome.

Tayson with his Blackbird
The souvenir he bought was a blackbird model plane from the A&S museum. He was so mad at me that I didn't pack it in the backpack so he would have it with him in this picture.

This is something fancy Steve worked on while he worked at Ratheyon

And I was really hoping to see a real harpoon and tomahawk since my dad worked on these when I was growing up....but these will do.


That night we met a friend of mine from BYU. It was so much fun to catch up. I haven't seen him for over 10 years. Man how time flies.