After staying a couple of days with our favorite extended family in Virginia, we made our way to D.C. Driving was uneventful and we cruised straight to our awesome hotel, The George Washington University Inn. We loved our hotel and would definitely stay there again!
I mean, seriously, they wrap the toilet paper with satin ribbon.
We didn't waste any time. We were back on the town, um District, with our first stop The Holocaust Museum. Ru has read some about it and wanted to go. Here we are about to get on the metro for the first time. Virginia looks worried and Ru's praying that we we don't miss our stop, ha! Virginia kept us on track with her trusty map.
The Holocaust Museum has a great section called Daniel's House that's made just for kids. Ruby's looking at a room set up to replicate one found in the ghettos.
A lot of the museum was too much for Ru. Virginia was okay because I don't think she grasps it all yet. But, for Ru, we only looked at what she could handle. We looked at the photograph of the beautiful synagogue's before and after being burned. We stood inside the railcar, one that was used to transport people to the concentration camps. We looked at the photographs from the Tower of Faces, the exhibit that still haunts me so that I researched what happened in that town and read the history. And we saw the shoes. We'll come back again when they're a little older.
Our hotel neighborhood, the Foggy Bottom district.
Thank goodness for the Whole Foods located two blocks away. We fixed our dinner to go and brought them back to the room. The girls loved the fancy water available in our hotel lobby.
The next day, we walked from our hotel to the WW2 Memorial passing through GWU's area dorms and greek houses while observing all the college kids moving into their new homes.
It's an amazing memorial, to say the least.
Then, we found the White House. We were hoping to see their dog out in the yard but no such luck.
Here, we had back tracked to the Lincoln Memorial, the girls' favorite.
He sure is big!
I thought the Vietnam Memorial was the most moving and personal tribute out of all that I saw.
I think the girls would agree that it's humbling to see all of those names. It comes close to putting it into perspective. The girls studied the names, then talked about how they loved how it was built and how it was nice they provided a reference book to help a person locate a name.
On a side note, we had fun seeing Virginia's name everywhere.(:
Last stop, The American Girl store! Two and a half hours of non-stop dolls. We had lunch. (Next time, we'll be having the choice they offer called afternoon tea which looked great.) THe girls had a blast and no problem spending their money that Nana gave them. (Thanks, Mama!)
Somewhere between The White and The Lincoln Memorial, we decided to go back to Aunt Kim's instead of making the long drive home. I mean, who could resist that cutie in the left lower hand corner?? Then there's the chickens and the best aunt in the world...