Oh hey.... 3 months later... here is the part 2 of our spring break! Whoops!
We got an amazing deal for our hotel and it just happened to be a Marriott Residence Inn which was perfect for us because it had a mini kitchen so we could prepare some of our food instead of eating out every meal. The hotel also gave Emerie this cute little bear (oso) that she didn't let go of hardly at ever during our trip and 3 months later she still sleeps with it at night! As a mom, that really made an impression on me and I would recommend our hotel so highly!
We made a special visit to one of my old roommates who lives in Williamsburg while her husband goes to law school there. It was so fun to catch up and meet her cute little guy! We walked down their historic "main street" and it was amazing. Like I said in part 1 I am a sucker for good architecture and the old beautiful homes and churches were just amazing. Apparently, during summer this place really comes alive so maybe we will have to come back and visit and then we can finally go see Virginia Beach.
The Smithsonian museums are amazing and tiring all at the same time. Emerie loved the Natural History Museum and we literally spent the entire day just in that museum basically. She loved exploring and not having a ton of people around made it easier for me to let her do that.
(We just happened to go on the only day of the week you can get into their butterfly encounter for FREE! SCORE!)
The Washington Monument was amazing and going to the top was really cool. Emerie was asleep the whole time basically which was kind of a bummer but good for her to get some rest after the Natural History Museum fun.
Figuring out the Metro was overwhelming for us (mainly me) at first but we quickly figured it out and it became Emerie's favorite place to run around which we did not love.
Our last full day was spent visiting the Capitol and the Air and Space Museum. We were pretty run down from all the walking and site seeing but we saw what we wanted to see and it was amazing! Our funny story (or not so funny at the time) was at the Air and Space Museum when we lost Emerie's coat. Emerie was having a meltdown and we were getting ready to book it out of there when we realized we had lost her coat. Well, that museum was ridiculously HUGE and I was ready to forget about it but decided she needed it so we split up I went looking while Nathan took Emerie to the lost and found. I looked for awhile and got frustrated so I prayed and I ended up finding it about a minute later. It was a great spiritual experience but one that left both Nathan and I pretty exhausted and less than happy to keep going with our initial site-seeing plan.
So we left and at a great burger place and while we were leaving the restaurant towards the Metro we found this beautiful church and it somehow made the tiring day a little brighter, well at least for me.
On our way heading home for Ohio, we stopped and drove by the beautiful DC temple. It was so amazing blanketed in snow and it was just a dreamy. Someday I hope we can make it back and go inside. Overall, it was a great trip and I'm grateful, that despite some meltdowns from all three of us, we made it a great first Spring Break together as a family!
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