D.C. The final post...

Here are some more pictures from another day spent in D.C.  We have so many pictures, and as I look through them I already dream of going back again!  It was such an amazing trip filled with so much cool history!  We heard that if you were to see every single thing in Washington D.C. it would take you 42 years!  I believe it!

                                                                 The White House

National Archives was one of my favorites!

 

Ok, this was a really cool day too!  Marc contacted our State Representative Austin Scott and got passes for us to go into the House and the Senate. One of his staff members walked us through a ton of security and then handed us our passes!  I'm sure this is something Mariah will always remember seeing!  We were really hoping to see Rand Paul while we were there, but we didn't.

 

Right as we were going back into his office to gather our things Mr. Scott walked in.  We weren't expecting to meet him.  Marc chatted with him for several minutes about education. Marc (being an administrator in the public school system) had a chance to voice some of his complaints, and Mr. Scott agreed with him. :)

 

 

Mariah and I were embarrassed about our attire, but we were dressed for lots of walking! :)

 

We spent one afternoon at Arlington Cemetery.  That is definitely worth the trip out to see it.

                                                  Robert E. Lee's home.

It is kind of sobering to see rows, and rows, and rows of white tombstones.

Inside of Lee's home.  It was a really neat house.

There was an older lady there that loved telling stories.  Listening to the history was really fascinating!

Mariah thought this tree was really cool, and she speculated that Lee's children may have played on it!

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

 

Standing in front of Lee's home overlooking all of D.C.

On the steps of one of Marc's favorite Civil War heroes!

 

Our flight was late that evening.  Snow (and ice!) were moving into the area.  Our plane was delayed because they were spraying the wings down with something to keep ice from forming on them in the air.  I was busy texting Matthew about it. (He is in school for aviation mechanics and engineering.)  He kept texting trying to assure me that they knew what they were doing! :)  I wasn't convinced as we hit very turbulent air on our flight home!  It was so bad that the stewardesses sat through most of the flight.  I was SO glad to land back in the wonderful state of Georgia!

 

We were really late pulling into our driveway that night.  Matthew and Madeline were waiting up on us.  I was so glad to go into my bedroom and see my littlest fellow laying there asleep.  It was a wonderful trip filled with lots of great memories, but as the saying goes....... There is NO place like home!

~Goodnight