Proud to be an American!

The Holt's, Connell's, and I all went to DC for the Fourth of July weekend and we had a BLAST!  This summer Carleton is staying at his brother's house in Alexandria and since everyone was out of town we all had a great place to stay for free, even better!  Thank you so much, Christian and Jen!  Most of the people that went had never been to DC so we did all the touristy things, we saw all (or at least a LOT of) the monuments and memorials.  We got to sign an I-beam that is traveling across the US and happened to be in DC two of the days we were there, they're going to make two big waterfall/pools in memory of the people who lost their lives on September 11, you can check it out here.  It was really cool, we even got special 9-11 sharpies as keepsakes, which we used to sign the beam.  

Thursday we got in, got grub, and went to the DC temple, Kristin's parents were sealed there and she'd never seen it before.  That's where Carleton and I were planning on getting married but we decided that it would be too much of a hassle and we'd just get married in Apex instead.  This one is special to me because it was the first temple I'd ever been in.  We walked Georgetown, saw a townhouse for sale, Carleton went home and priced it, 3.99 million-anyone interested?  We went home to play mexican train but we were all so beat that we decided that could wait til the next night.

On Friday after a long day of sight-seeing we went to a Korean BBQ and ate a lot, it was neat, and really good!  Following dinner we took our first ride on the metro and went to the Nationals vs. Braves MLB game.  We were supposed  to play mexican train, but as you can guess we were all SO tired that we put it off again. 

Saturday we saw more sites, like the capital building, the white house, more museums, etc. Then watched the fireworks on the top of Carleton's building (the law building, not his brother's house).  We had a great view of the fireworks, Washington Monument, capital building, and you could see the white house too!  Last year we watched the fireworks on the white house lawn, so it was cool to see a different perspective.  I was so bummed that I forgot my tripod, but I think we still got some pretty sweet shots!  On our way home we blasted "Proud to be an American" and sang our little hearts out.  Oh and don't worry, we were eventually able to play our Mexican train that night:)  I think we may have converted the Holt's! 

I'll be posting more of our pictures from the trip here on my picture blog shortly.  We were in Nikon heaven, each couple has one so there was a lot of picture taking, I have narrowed mine down to 388, I'm sure that's less than a third of all the pictures we'll have from this trip!

Enjoy!  Just for the record, I'm still missing my husband a LOT. Only seeing the husband on  weekends makes this wife really sad but I'm extra excited to see him Friday night!  

Update: tonight we swapped pictures, so I had to add more, there are a ton of others I'd like to put up here, but these will do:)  Thank you Kristin, Josh, and Ali for more awesome pictures, I can't wait for the next trip!