The weekend of July 15th we headed back to Washington DC to celebrate Tom's birthday.
We got there Friday night and after checking in to our hotel (right across the street from the Pentagon), we walked down the street to this new bar-b-que place.
Saturday morning, we ate breakfast at the hotel and then took the subway to Ford's Theatre. Tommy loves hearing about Lincoln, so we thought this would be a fun thing to do.
The kids waiting for our time to go in.
The kids sort of liked walking through the museum, but we all enjoyed listening to the park ranger talk about the events on the night Lincoln was shot. He gave all the details about Lincoln & Booth's day. The talk was probably 30 or 45 minutes.
Waiting for the talk to start
After the tour was over, we walked over to Capital City Brewing for lunch and to cool off. It was pretty hot the whole weekend.
Walked over to the White House
Saturday night, we took the metro over to the Nationals Ballpark and wouldn't you know as soon as we got off - it poured down rain. We stayed inside for about 30 minutes and then decided to buy a a couple rain ponchos and head across the street to the ballpark.
It rained for another hour or so. We had planned on grabbing something to eat and then heading to our seats, but after grabbing some food from Shake Shack (so good) we ended up eating under the escalators. Oh well!
The game was probably delayed about 30 minutes, but it was still fun hanging out and watching the Pirates. The coolest thing was getting texts from some friends that we were on TV! One of the dads from Tommy's baseball team even sent us a screen shot from the game.
We left around 10:30 and the game was only in the 6th inning.
On Sunday, we went to walk around and look at some monuments.
The kids look so small at the Washington Monument
Tom and the kids at the WW2 Memorial
Texas!
Of course we had to walk to the Lincoln Memorial
We always have so much fun when we go to Washington. We can't wait to go back next year.
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