Valentines Day in DC

The tax man showed up late so we ended up having to leave a day later than planned. Which meant we also had to cancel our Valentines/Anniversary plans but that was ok since we wanted to kids to have a great time.

The kids had a half day on Friday so we picked them up after school and headed straight to DC. We made it the hotel about 4pm and were about to head out to go see the monuments at night when Kalyn said her eye hurt. So I took a look at it... pink eye strikes! I got on the phone to her doctor's office to see about getting a script called in to a local pharmacy. They said to wait for a call back before heading to the pharmacy. So we waited and waited. We were finally able to get her meds about 9pm but it was too late to go the monuments by then.

Saturday we headed to downtown on the metro, then by bus. They had closed one of the metro stations for repairs and they had buses to take people around to the next stop. It wasn't too bad, just added thirty minutes to our travel time. First we went to the American Indian Museum which we had never been to. I especially liked all the art work and the kids liked the computer system they had set up at many of the exhibits. Next we went to the Natural History Museum and Chase was anxious to see the Rocks & Minerals exhibit. He walked us all through it telling us what everything was and how it was made etc..etc... Kalyn just ran around saying "Ooo look at this one...Ooo look at that one...they are so pretty". Of course we also had to go by the gift shop and pick Kalyn up a new butterfly snow globe since the one she got last year got broken fifteen minutes after getting home. The new one lasted a bit longer...it broke a week later. :(

Then we headed to the newly remolded US History Museum to eat lunch. Lunch was good but gave us sticker shock! Boy they sure do rack you over the coals with that kinda stuff. It is beautiful museum! Very modern looking and a lot more open than it was before. They even had a kids area with "hands on" stuff to do.

We had walked way too much that day. We were all pretty tuckered out! Sunday we ended up going home early because the "pink eye" struck again! This time is was Chase and it was really bad. By time we made it home and got him to the doctor his eye was completely swollen shut. We spent the rest of the weekend watching movies together and pretty much just loafing around. All in all it was a good trip and have some great memories and many more to laugh about.