Today we spent the day in DC. We stopped at a
Dunkin Donuts on the way and went through the drive
thru and they somehow confused our order with someone
else's even though all we ordered was a medium french
vanilla coffee. When I got to the pickup window, they told me it was $8 and three different people asked me if I ordered a bagel before finally understanding all we ordered was the coffee which really smelled nothing like french vanilla (it was for
fiona so i didn't actually taste it). We then drove around looking for parking for a good 15-20 min and just as we were getting to a lot we finally found a meter, so that was some good luck.
After parking we jogged to the National Archives to prevent Fiona from peeing herself. Kai (after insisting he didn't have to) also let out quite a large volume of "peeps." The National Archives is always cool... all those crusty old papers on which our
country is based. It's awesome that we can still go look at them after so many years. Kai was amused for about half the loop and then we walked around stepping on all the circles on the floor. Next we ate some lunch on a stone wall outside the archives, fed the meter, and headed off to the Smithsonian American Art Museum. There were some awesome photos in the portrait gallery including some celebs that I really enjoyed.
They were huge blow ups and
you could see every detail of their faces. My
favs were Angelina Jolie and the one of these 4 guys one of
which was the dark haired guy from Jurassic Park. There was also a weird sculpture of a temple or something made of aluminum foil...very odd.. After the art museum we wasted the rest of our meter time walking around on the mall. It turned out to be a beautiful day and Kai enjoyed looking through all the rocks on the path (which also made for very slow walking.)
The last things we did were a quick drive by of the White House and find a new parking space to walk to the Lincoln Memorial. There was an especially beautiful view that day. The sky was very blue and the reflecting pool looked amazing. Unfortunately, I left my camera in the car for that part of the trip.. The drive home was
way better than i had imagined. I think we left DC around 4:15 and got to Columbia just about 1 hr later. We stopped to get some groceries on the way home. Kai had fallen asleep in the car so I threw him in my baby ergo carrier (mentioning the name here because i LOVE this carrier), thinking he'd wake up a few minutes later, but no, he slept through the entire shopping experience which made getting a giant bucket of kitty litter into the cart quite a
challenge... thank goodness
fiona was with me or I think i probably would've given up and left the bucket in the middle of the aisle =). So after a day of
WAAAY more exercise than I've been doing during this lazy winter hibernation, I threw together some fish cutlets, ate, and headed to bed with Kai while my husband and
sil headed out on a mission to find some cookies. I think that was around 8pm which is why I'm now up at 4am doing this. Also I temp at random times during the night cause that's the only way I can manage to do it after a significant stretch of sleep. I was expecting my shift but nothing, so I guess better keep trying for a few more days. I was way too tired last night and trying in the am has been a bad idea so far since the little monkey wants to be in whatever room we are in. That's about it for yesterday. Peace.
After parking we jogged to the National Archives to prevent Fiona from peeing herself. Kai (after insisting he didn't have to) also let out quite a large volume of "peeps." The National Archives is always cool... all those crusty old papers on which our country is based. It's awesome that we can still go look at them after so many years. Kai was amused for about half the loop and then we walked around stepping on all the circles on the floor. Next we ate some lunch on a stone wall outside the archives, fed the meter, and headed off to the Smithsonian American Art Museum. There were some awesome photos in the portrait gallery including some celebs that I really enjoyed. 
They were huge blow ups and you could see every detail of their faces. My favs were Angelina Jolie and the one of these 4 guys one of which was the dark haired guy from Jurassic Park. There was also a weird sculpture of a temple or something made of aluminum foil...very odd.. After the art museum we wasted the rest of our meter time walking around on the mall. It turned out to be a beautiful day and Kai enjoyed looking through all the rocks on the path (which also made for very slow walking.) 
The last things we did were a quick drive by of the White House and find a new parking space to walk to the Lincoln Memorial. There was an especially beautiful view that day. The sky was very blue and the reflecting pool looked amazing. Unfortunately, I left my camera in the car for that part of the trip.. The drive home was way better than i had imagined. I think we left DC around 4:15 and got to Columbia just about 1 hr later. We stopped to get some groceries on the way home. Kai had fallen asleep in the car so I threw him in my baby ergo carrier (mentioning the name here because i LOVE this carrier), thinking he'd wake up a few minutes later, but no, he slept through the entire shopping experience which made getting a giant bucket of kitty litter into the cart quite a challenge... thank goodness fiona was with me or I think i probably would've given up and left the bucket in the middle of the aisle =). So after a day of WAAAY more exercise than I've been doing during this lazy winter hibernation, I threw together some fish cutlets, ate, and headed to bed with Kai while my husband and sil headed out on a mission to find some cookies. I think that was around 8pm which is why I'm now up at 4am doing this. Also I temp at random times during the night cause that's the only way I can manage to do it after a significant stretch of sleep. I was expecting my shift but nothing, so I guess better keep trying for a few more days. I was way too tired last night and trying in the am has been a bad idea so far since the little monkey wants to be in whatever room we are in. That's about it for yesterday. Peace.
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