Well, now I know that Washington DC can be done with five kids under 9 years (no strollers)…but is it advisable? We had a blast but we walked our children to death. Over 2 ½ days we saw a lot.
Natural History Museum
Air and Space Museum
Jefferson Memorial
Top of the Washington Monument (what an amazing view!)
Lincoln Memorial
Ford’s Theater where Lincoln was assassinated (This was really cool)
Toured the Capital Building and Supreme Court
Ate street vendor hot dogs and pretzels
Walked by the White House (you can’t get close to it any more)
WWI, WWII, Vietnam War and Korean War memorial
Statue of George Mason (his ideas inspired the Virginia Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence, mentor to George Washington and T. Jefferson considered him the wisest of the age)
Signer of the Declaration of Independence Memorial
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial (where we saw a family of deer hiding in the forest)
Arlington National Cemetery (where Tyler had to walk around wearing the booster seat arm rest covers on his feet because he lost his shoes)
Mount Vernon
Our plans changed a couple times as to where we were going to stay in the DC/Virginia area. Because we have such a fun loving God, he led us to stay with a family that I had grown up with in Hawaii. I hadn’t seen the Boyds nor had any contact with the family since 6th grade! David (unfortunately his wife was in England) and his daughter took great care of us for two nights. We also stayed a night with an embassy family we knew in Paraguay and are now stationed in DC. It was fun talking about Paraguay and speaking in Guarani to their Paraguayan house-help. Another night we stayed with Jeff’s cousin and her family whom he hadn’t seen since elementary school.
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