4th of July

For the 4th we went to DC. We just had to go there once while we lived here for the 4th and we knew that it would be crazy and loud and filled with tons of people and getting back home would be long, but we just had to. We took the metro and got there early and walked around some. We found this beautiful old church and Fords theater, that was closed so we couldn't take a tour, and the Petersen house where Lincoln died, it was open so we were able to walk through it, it was amazing and weird to stand in the same room where he took his last breath. After some more walking and getting lost we finally got to the Washington monument and met up with Brent and Dani, that wasn't previously planned but turned out wonderful. We sat with them and visited and Ginger had a blast playing with girls trying to catch fireflys and run around. The fireworks were beautiful, kind short (like 10 mins) but beautiful espcially with them bursting behind the monument. Afterwards we just hung around cuz' a HUGE crowd had formed around the nearest metro and so we say with Brent and Dani and the kids and had strawberry shortcake (thank you Dani for sharing with us) and then we decided that we were going to walk to the next metro. So off we went. We saw the other side of the white house which was gorgeous all lit up. The ride home wasn't bad a little crowded and some standing in lines but we were in good spirits we finally arrived home around 12:30am, that's not to bad. Poor Dani and Brent arrived home 1:30-2am.