Washington, DC

We are now in Virginia but I need to take some time to bring you up to date. We arrived in Washington late on Sunday. After a day of school and laundry and all that stuff we headed into town on Tuesday. We took a shuttle from the campsite to the Metro and headed to the Smithsonian which is a misnomer....it should be called The Smithsonian Group because it actually consists of many museums of which we visited 2....and it took us almost all day!! We went to the museum of Natural History and saw everything from elephants to dinosaurs to hissing cockroaches to tarantulas. We also saw the Hope Diamond. Next we went to the Air and Space museum where we saw the Kittyhawk, the Spirit of St. Loius and a Lunar Modual amongst a thousand other planes, rockets and helicopters. Then, since we hadn't done quite enough walking (not!!) we went to the Washington Monument and saw the White House, Lincoln Monument and the Capitol. We were exhausted when we arrived back at the trailer!! Since we didn't have the heart to drag the kids around for another day we spent a day at camp and then headed down to Williamsburg, VA. So, here we are in beautiful Virginia. Today we cashed in on our passes to the Busch parks. This was a huge amusement park with 3 huge roller coasters and every other ride imaginable. The kids had a blast. Fortunately Matthew still likes the tame rides so I hung out with him while the girls and dad went on all the roller coasters and freaky rides. Richard did drag me on the two worst roller coasters though. It was so fun we are heading there again tomorrow!