Washington, DC

Last week we took a little trip down to Washington, DC and to Virginia Beach to see some friends. First stop was at the Smithsonian Nathional Air & Space Museum. It was neat to see so many huge and really cool exhibits.

Mike standing in front of the first type of plane he flew solo - Cessna 150 (I'm pretty good eh!)
We quickly gave the kids a few lessons, and up they went!
even Kate had a turn...
the Concord

and Space Shuttle Enterprise
Miss Bella
the kids in the 'control tower'
Then we went downtown to check out the capital building... we were too late to get a tour inside, so we just walked around the Mall
we checked out the botanical gardens - one of the Smithsonian exhibits

playing in a little playhouse in the children's garden