Since I am a day behind in my DC adventure today's post will include our Easter Sunday activities as well as the struggle it was to get home!
Easter was probably my favorite day! We started our day off with a trip to Arlington National Cemetery. This was probably the most anticipated event of our vacation. Both G and I think that Arlington is one of the most sacred places in our country. We purposely left Arlington for Sunday, G thought it would be appropriate. It was a very humbling experience seeing the thousands of graves of our nations biggest heroes. G pointed out to me that because of the miracles that occurred on, and leading up to, the first Easter that these heroes will live again. The most memorable part of Arlington, and anyone who has been there will probably agree, was the changing of the guard. G and I liked it so much we stayed and watched two changing of the guards along with two wreath laying ceremonies. Standing in the warm sun listening to taps echoing throughout the cemetery is something I will never forget. After Arlington, walked up and down the streets looking for a place to eat. We ended up eating at Cosi and it was fantastic! With our bellies full of delicious food we went to the WWII memorial, another sacred and beautiful place in DC. As the sunset we headed to the Vietnam memorial and the Lincoln monument. As we were getting ready to leave Lincoln's monument we watched a thunderstorm sweep across the city. Since the Lincoln monument is on top of a hill we had the best seats in the house! We watched lightning strike on all sides then listened as thunder rumbled in surround sound! As the rain drew closer we tried to make a desperate dash towards the metro. Unfortunately, we only made it down the stairs of the Lincoln monument before we were soaked to the
bone! We ran back to the monument and waited out the storm, packed into the building like sardines with hundreds of other wet tourists. However, that was probably my favorite memory of our trip!
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| Beautiful Easter morning! |
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G at Arlington.
Isn't he handsome!! |
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| Changing of the guard. |
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| WWII memorial |
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| WWII memorial |
Monday was our last day in DC. We ate breakfast as usual (I am really gonna miss our free hot breakfasts every morning) then went back to the room to pack. My cousin Jenn lives out in Maryland so I don't get to see her very often. We had made plans to meet up Monday for lunch so G could meet her family. So we took the metro to the very end of the line and Jenn picked us up from there. Her husband Rick went out and got us delicious Philly cheese steak sandwiches. YUM! G and I had so much fun catching up with Jenn and Rick and seeing their adorable children! When lunch was over G and I took the metro back to the city where we picked up our luggage and checked out of the hotel. Our plan was to ride the metro to a stop where a shuttle could pick us up and take us to the airport. FAIL! right as we were about to catch our train, all the trains heading towards Virginia (that's where we wanted to go) broke down!! we waited for a good 20 or so minutes but no progress. So we tried to take a taxi to the stop where we could pick up our shuttle... but that ended up taking too long and we were going to miss our flight! So unfortunately we had to take the taxi all the way to the airport... it was VERY EXPENSIVE! Luckily we made our flight and made a new taxi driver friend. We flew home without any problems! We are now back, safe and sound, and even though Utah is still flipping between winter and spring we are still happy to be back!
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