Washington D.C. Temple

Its no San Diego Temple but its pretty darn snazzy. Jeff went around the grounds and took some nice pictures while I sat down with my mom becuse I felt sick :). It would have been nice to have made time to go in but it was a great opportunity to just see it too.

Washington D.C. Smithsonian Museums

Jeff and I went to almost all the Smithsonian Museums while we were visiting D.C. Some were well worth it and some were nice to say we went anyways. We went to the National Archives (Declaration, Bill of Rights...), Natural History Museum, Air and Space Museum, The Holocaust Museum, and The National Art Museum.

Declaration of Independence

This was so not worth it...as much of a history fan that I am. We waited about 2 hours in the blazing hot sun to get into a building where it was a maze to get to the exhibit, then we waited some more behind velvet ropes while another group was looking at the exhibits. When we finally got in, it was super dark to preserve the papers. We couldn't' use flash photography so our pictures all turned out bad, except the one above, and the papers were very faded. I was pretty bummed.

Romulus and Remus

Famous statue...I think it it called The Dancer...

I'm thinking...a model of The Thinker

Van Gough's self portrait

Jeff knows way more about the Air and Space Museum than I could imagine. He took tons of pictures but I don't know anything about the planes so I only posted a few. I believe this one is the awesome plane that Hitler built that if he built more could have won the war....interesting fact, according to Jeff.

Replica of a WWI bunker

Charles Lindbergh's plane, The Spirit of Saint Louis

The Hope Diamond

T-Rex!

Mammoth

Replica of a Blue Whale

Easter Island Head....Dumb dumb give me gum gum

Washington D.C. in June

Jeff, my mom, and I went to Washington D.C. in June to visit my brother Bobby and to see the sites. Jeff and I spent a whole, very hot day, running around D.C. seeing the memorials and the buildings. I really enjoyed seeing all the history in EVERYTHING. Jeff and I suspect we walked over 8 miles that day alone. We had a blast, even thought we decided the bus tours would have been way better : ).

Capital Building
WWI Memorial

Korean War Memorial (very cool)

Korean War Memorial

Korean War Memorial

View of Washington Monument and Reflecting Pool from Lincoln Memorial

Lincoln Memorial (quite a hike in the heat)

WWII Memorial (very huge and very cool)

Vietnam Memorial

White House

Jeff holding up the Washington Monument

Me holding up the Washington Monument

Washington Monument

My mom had a bridge named after her :)

Repelling

On Friday the YW went camping overnight to certify in cooking for Girls Camp and to have fun together. On Saturday we went to Watson Lake and got to Repel. The girls had a blast and so did I :).

Garden Time

Jeff has been working hard in our back yard lately. We have a pretty good sized garden, which is starting to sprout. The pond Jeff built last year is starting to really look nice as well. We have 3 turtles and a lot of goldfish in there. We have also been able to grow a billion roses on our 6 rose bushes out front. I posted pictures of part of our first clippings of the year.