Washington DC ✈

No this isn't take your wife to work day [unfortunately].  I ended up taking the TRE train, it's like Frontrunner, to get to the airport this time and it stops right outside American Airlines headquarters. I got there early before our flight so Josh had me come see his cubicle and sit with him while he finished work so here's his cubicle folks!

Look at Josh's artwork I painted this for him and he took it
to work how sweet of him (:

Here it is!

We headed to DC this weekend. Dream come true! It was incredible. Our first flight was delayed an hour due to mechanical problems so smart Josh got us pushed onto a different flight and it worked out perfectly. We flew into DC while it was dark and were able to spot all of the famous landmarks from the sky lit up it was beautiful. Josh found a website where he could enter his own price and see if any hotels in a certain area would accept and this weekend we got lucky they did! We got to stay at an awesome hotel. So awesome we took pictures. You'd have to see some of the scary places we've stayed in to understand why we were so over excited.

Saturday morning we woke up bright and early to explore DC. We visited the library of congress. They have a section that's an actual library that residents can come to.  They also had Thomas Jefferson's library who claimed: "I cannot live without books" -1815. Well said.

Next we visited the Capitol. We have to give Utah some credit here I think our Capitol is just as beautiful. Smaller but looks very similar!

The back

The front

After the Capitol we headed to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. It was full of old airplanes and space ships. We saw a 3D video about repairing Hubble - so cool!

Josh with some AA old planes behind him.

Next we went to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. Equally as cool & huge! We were so tired by the end we didn't even see it all. It's full of wildlife, sea creatures [my favorite] & tons and tons of science. We learned that some of the worlds tallest forests are in the ocean! Crazy. These museums are a must but there's so many we couldn't see them all in one day!  Best part is they were free. Well technically free josh says because we pay taxes ha.

Here were are at the Hubble movie with our awesome 3D glasses!

We visited Washington monument and the Supreme Court but both were under construction. So then we headed to the White House. For some reason it did not look like I expected. We saw a figure in the window and I told josh I'm just going to assume it's Obama so I can say we saw him!

Washington Monument

The white house!

We took a break to go to dinner at a delicious Mediterranean place [josh went to one once with work and now he loves Mediterranean food!] with Josh's old mission companion and his wife. They are interning in DC for the summer so we got to catch up with them it was a lot of fun and full of mission stories as you can imagine. Turns out Joshua was quite the prankster. Not surprised!

Next we went and saw Lincoln memorial. Incredible to see in real life! Much bigger than I imagined.

We visited the war memorials next!

Korean War Memorial

WWII Memorial has all the states surrounding it.  

We finished our night by going to see the Jefferson memorial. We walked there as the sun set it was the perfect evening.

Jefferson!

The view on the walk there. Gorgeous.

The view from the monument. Josh holding Washington monument in his hands!

We learned a lot in Washington and saw how much our early leaders  were divinely led. So grateful for their sacrifices & the opportunities we experience in America. We had an amazing time in DC together (: