may days

May has brought us rain, these past few pretty days and it brought us a special viz w/ my mom an dad. Mom came in for a week (i took ZERO pics, what's wrong with me?) and then we headed to DC for the weekend and saw dad. It was nice to have the rare treat of spending mother's day with my mom. We went out to eat for dinner, just the two of us, and ordered a chef's choice 3 course meal with additional salad and dessert. YUM. And the conversation was nice too :)

The first day in DC was mostly hanging out at the hotel. That evening there was a dinner with fundraising, awards & recognition, etc. This was also the end of Dad's final term as ICA president. It was touching to see him honored and appreciated for all the hard work he's done over the years.

Saturday we headed to the mall and did a little bit in 3 different Smithsonian museums.

Waiting for the subway.

We were 15min early to the opening of the American History Museum. So the kids played on these benches. This all started with the second pic where E said she was the Statue of Liberty. I suppose she was feeling patriotic, being in our nation's capital and all. Then I set J up as the thinker, and then they just started making silly poses and asking me to take pics of them.

Um...dream toy?

I took one of them 2yrs ago next to this rabbit.

Holding up the memorial. He looks confused because I didn't explain, I just said "stand like this."

We took a DC at night tour on a trolley type of bus.

Guess who got to be the "navigator" and sit in a special seat up front. Oh my, this was totally up my boy's alley. He was answering questions, some he actually got right. Everyone would cheer for him, and he soaked up every drop.

View of Capitol, Washington & Lincoln Memorials from Iwo Jima.

J and FDR. It started pouring on us here.

Didn't seem to upset him.

J had to wipe off the inside of the window for driver Jorge.

Korean War Memorial

On Sunday we went to the...

Can you say "sweet"? There was actually a baby gorilla there that we did get to see, pretty cool.

I wanted E to kiss it, but instead J hugged it.

They kept referring to Kung Fu Panda.

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*photos by den, he was proud of them so I must give him props. Some of the pics (not his necessarily ) are grainy. I need to get more into the technical side of my cam, thanks for the grace.