Sight Seeing in DC

As I mentioned in my skiing post, we came home a day early from that trip.  And since D already had the day off, we thought it would be fun to take the girls down to the mall to be tourists for the day.  Their favorite part is clearly riding the train (aka metro) into the city and from stop to stop.

We enjoyed all of the monuments but I was bummed that they were working on the reflecting pool and the water features at the WWII (my favorite).  It is quite a hike to go from one end all the way to the other by the Lincoln, so we then took a taxi (another favorite for the girls) over to Capital Hill to eat lunch.  We ate at We the Pizza (by Spike from Top Chef fame).  Then back on the metro for a trip to the Smithsonian to see the dinosaurs and the diamonds.  Where the girls went CRAZY taking pictures of every rock there was.  D secretly loves how annoyed I get during these photo sessions cause he thinks it is some crazy karma based on all the times I make them take pictures.   So here are the pics from the day:

Riding in for our adventure on the Metro.  Every 5 stops the girls switched seats.  When do they get to a point where they don't care who they sit by?

 

The girls rocking a pose in front of the WWII and with the Lincoln in the background.

 

We have this same picture from when the girls were 10 months old.  Which I think is here: babies in DC

 Here is the fam in front of Virginia.

LOVE IT!  This is probably one of my all time favorite pictures!!

The girls in front of Lincoln

 Brooke took this picture of us - which totally had us cracking up as it looked like it was aimed directly at our crotches and she insisted on taking several, much to the amusement of the diners outside. 

Not sure what this is but the girls wanted their picture taken with the flowers so I got this in the background.

  Brooke in front of the Hope Diamond

Brooke with a large cool rock.

 Audrey posing in front of more rock (clearly we did not learn much on our day)

I deleted most of the pictures that the girls took from the museum - too much glare and too close to see much.  But here are a few that survived my editing: