dAY 2 -TALES FROM DC

I DECIDED AT THE LAST MINUTE TO BUT SOME OLD TOWN TROLLY! WOWZERS AM I GLAD WE DID THIS! - MADE GETTING AROUND SO MUCH EASIER ! YOU KNOW WHEN LOOK AT THE MAPS OF THE CITY THE BUILDINGS DONT LOOK THAT FAR APART - I KNOW THAT I PROBABLY COULD NOT HAVE COVERED THE AREAS THAT WE RODE AROUND IN ONE DAY IN A WEEK! IT WAS ALSO A GREAT WAY TO COOL OF - WE WOULD SIT IN THE BACK OF THE OPEN AIRED TROLLEY AND LET THE WIND BLOW THRU OUR AIR .

TODAY WE WENT TO THE LINCOLN AND JEFFERSON MEMORIALS. WE WENT TO ESPN ZONE FOR LUNCH - AND WENT TO THE FORD THEATER. ARYN WAS VERY INTREGUED BY LINCOLN - SHE HAS ASKED ALOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT HIM AND WAS SHOCKED WHEN SHE HEARD HE WAS DEAD!

CONVERSATION INSIDE THE MUSEUM OF THE FORD THEATER
A- " WHAT IS ALL THIS STUFF"
MOM - " THIS IS MEMORABILA ABOUT THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ABE LINCOLN"
A- ' WHAT DO YOU MEAN DEATH? HE DEAD?"
MOM- " HONEY, HE DIED ALONG TIME AGO"
A- VERY SHOCKED AND VERY SAD "HOW? "
MOM - " HE GOT SHOT "
ARYN - VERY SHOCKED AND VERY SAD JUST PUT HER HEAD DOWN AND WALKED AWAY .....

AFTER WE WALKED AROUND THE MUSEUM WE WENT UPSTAIRS AND SAT IN THE ACTUAL THEATER AND LISTENED TO SOME PARK RANGERS TALK ABOUT THE NIGHT HE WAS SHOT. ARYN SAT ON THE EDGE OF HER SEAT . AT THE END SHE SAID SHE WANTED TO GO DOWN TO THE BOOK STORE AND GET AN ABE LINCOLN BOOK. SHE WAS SO INTHRALLED WITH HIM, IT MADE ME SO PROUD OF HER. HOW SHE TOOK A REAL AND TRUE INTEREST, SHE WAS SO COMPASSIONATE AND SO FULL OF GRIEF. I REALIZED THAT SHE HAS GROWN UP SO MUCH THIS PAST SUMMER .

OK ENOUGH OF MY MUSHY MOM STUFF ...

AFTER FORDS WE TOOK THE TROLLEY BACK TO THE HOTEL. THE KIDS AND KEVIN WENT SWIMMING . I TOOK A NAP ( SEEING A TREND ) THAT NIGHT ANDREW AND I WENT ON A NIGHTIME TROLLEY TOUR OF THE CITY! IT WAS FABULOUS . IT OLD KEVIN IF WE GO TO DC AGAIN WE WONT DO THE DAY TIME TOURS ONLY THE NIGHTTIME ONES. ALOT COOLER AND THE CITY AND MONUMENTS ARE SO BEAUTIFUL AT NIGHT .