Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Trip to D.C. & Pamplin Civil War Site

Lincoln Memorial
Smithsonian Castle

Washington Monument
White House

Brad & Kyle with T-Rex from "Night at the Museum"
U.S. Capital

Looking Down at D.C.

 
Pamplin Civil War Site
Boys in Trouble
 


Last week we flew into D.C. to see some sites before we headed to the beach. We were able to see the U.S. Capital, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, the White House, Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Archives, & the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. It was so much fun to see our countries history.

We do know that we will never move to the east coast. The traffic there is horrible. If Yahoo says it will take an hour to get to your destination you can count on it taking 2 hours. Even though traffic was horrible, cars don't merge into an ending lane until the last second or they don't know that slower traffic should keep right I still rank UT having worse drivers.

Our next stop was the Pamplin Civil War site. It was really neat to see what the soldiers went through and how it changed our country.

Brad & Kyle really enjoyed seeing the sites and appreciated all of the history we saw. As for William he does not want to see another Memorial for a very long time. William & Matt were good troopers though.

4 comments:

Amanda said...

It looks like you had a fun trip!

Rayburn Family said...

How fun! The traffic is horrible down there around the city...we stick to the coast when we drive down to NC, and always detour NYC and D.C. What a great opportunity for your family!

wrightNOW said...

What a great trip!

Laurel/Lora Lee Porter said...

The boys were so lucky to be able to see the historical sites.