Washington D.C. 2011

Jarrett, Lindsay and I just got back from a lovely trip to Washington DC and Boston this past week. Jarrett had a conference to attend in DC, and Lindsay and I, once again, snuck into his suitcase to tour the nation's capital. Last year she was 9 months, and this time around she is 19 months... oh how time flies! We took TONS of pictures, so I am dividing it up by the places we visited. We had a few firsts on our trip: the airline loosing our luggage, driving a mini-van with a DVD player, and trying Dunkin Doughnut's Pumpkin Coffee (yum!). When we got to LAX for our flight back east, we discovered our flight was delayed, and as a result, made us miss our connection to DC. The airline was really great offering us a non-stop flight to DC that would get us there 3 hours earlier than our previous flight, except it was going to Dulles, not Reagan. This would have been ideal, accept we had already reserved and paid for (darn hotwire) a rental car at Reagan. We did the 4.5 hour flight non-stop, and were delighted when Lindsay slept for an hour, colored and watched Elmo on Jarrett's laptop the rest of the time. It a perfect flight!! We got to the airport and our luggage was put on a later flight to Dulles, so we were given the option of either coming back later to pick it up or having it delivered to our hotel, which sounded pretty good right about then. To make a long story short, our bags were delivered at 5:30am to our hotel, and poor Jarrett didn't get much sleep from calling the airline every 2 hours to check on the status. After sleeping in a bit, we got late start in checking out the parts of DC we missed last year, namely seeing the Constitution and Jefferson Memorial.

 Here's a hot, humid & sleep deprived family pic... wish we would've gotten more, but hey, it's one of the only ones, so I decided to post it, yucky in all :)

 Daddy & Lindsay, 9 months 

Daddy and Lindsay, 19 months

On our walk to the Jefferson Memorial

Doing her 'parade' wave to anyone passing by...

 Mama & Lindsay in front of the Jefferson Monument

Playing peek-a-boo with Daddy in the columns

View from the monument looking towards  the White House and Washington Monument... We couldn't take photos of the Constitution... something about the it fading...LOL.  Next up... Annapolis! FYI.. I am SO behind in blogging, so it is my goal to be caught up by the end of this week! Warning: Lot's of posts with pictures from the Fishers!