Showing posts with label sightseeing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sightseeing. Show all posts

8.21.2012

jason and kate are great.


kate and jason came to visit. we walked SOOO much. being a tourist is exhausting. i couldn't keep up most of the time. here are some photos of their visit...
so proud of their sand castle. i'm just proud jason's shoulder's got some sun... 

rehoboth beach, delaware. jason: what did della wear? me: (silence) jason: she wore a new jersey!
(and thus our weekend of jason's jokes began)



white house

old post office building

views from the top of the bell tower of the old post office

EPA (i think) and national mall beyond

honest abe...

ford's theater

crime and punishment museum

bonnie and clyde's car w/ a million bullet holes

kate and alex shooting 'em up. jason took this shot. i was at the exit, sitting, waiting for them to finish. 
walked through the mall. it was SUCH nice weather.

eastern market



went to sunday service at the national cathedral

nighttime monument tour

MLK monument

breadline at FDR memorial
jefferson... my favorite.
how lucky are they, to have a personal photographer for all their tourist spots?
it was a great weekend. hope they'll come visit again sometime!

5.30.2012

memorial day weekend at spruce knob

had a great time with bree, kevin, and louie. we have yet to get together and share pics, so most likely the ones they took with their SLR are better. and they were the only ones to take pics while climbing... but here's a few to document the weekend. 

after a great afternoon of climbing/driving in the sunshine, we arrived at our destination to find our campspot snagged, and then the sky unloaded sheets of rain...




(checking Louie for ticks)
 but finally the sun came out, just in time to set.
 and we had a lovely misty walk around the lake before it got dark.




back at camp, we borrowed a crazy looking axe from our awesome straightupwestvirginian neighbors...
 to make a fire and tin foil dinners and...
 banana boats!!!!


and the next morning the sunrise was gorgeous!


and we went on a hike to a waterfall all day... 

(i love him so much i didn't mind that he was soaking my pants with muddy water in this picture)



our final morning we checked out Spruce Knob itself, and the views were amazing.




clearly this was a CAR camping, not a backpacking two-day trip... haha.

 after unloading the car, we went to the Wax Museum to make all my birthday dreams come true. (meaning, only as a birthday present that was about to expire would Alex do something so cheesy as go to the wax museum. i loved seeing the presidents in real life. plus, they had gummy strawberries at the end.)

 same height, not the same weight...



 good times.


5.23.2012

historic triangle weekend

 we started the weekend with Jamestown. 


 thanks to bob's hangthecamerainatree trick, we got a group shot:

though we visited yorktown, we didn't get many pictures... just one of us at the beach...
the yorktown onion - illegal to pick, FYI...
... and a pretty treegrowinginabrickfence



 in williamsburg, we went to church, saw the pretty gardens and the governor's mansion, watch (briefly) some military marching, and had delicious food and fudge.




then off to monticello... it was much cooler than i thought.

 every night wrapped up with a fierce game of Ticket to Ride. 
we miss bob and merri already!