Tourists in the President's Front Yard

A couple of Saturdays ago now, we had gorgeous weather here and we decided to head to D.C. to the National Zoo. We packed up a sandwich lunch and were off...

We arrived at the zoo around 10:30 a.m. and all the parking lots were full... closed. We drove on a bit and were frustrated with the lack of parking. After wandering aimlessly through the streets of D.C. we decided to head to the National Mall area. Again, no parking! Apparently, on the first gorgeous Saturday of the year, everyone had the same idea... head to D.C. and play outside! Finally, around noon we parked quite a ways away from anything of interest and headed towards the mall area on foot with the two boys in the stroller.

We decided to head to the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History or what we like to call "The Dinosaur Museum." We hadn't been since Daddy-O has been home so Benjamin was thrilled to be going back. Don and I were just happy to be getting out of the car after spending so much time driving around in search of parking.

En route to the museum we stopped at a grassy area in front of the White House. The boys ran around and enjoyed being silly and soaking up the sunshine. Then we all settled in on a park bench and enjoyed our lunch. Since the election hype, Benjamin has been quite fascinated by the President and had tons of questions about him and "his house" that we were in such proximity to while eating lunch.

After lunch we walked the rest of the way to the Dinosaur Museum and enjoyed our visit there.

We ended up having a really nice time but declared that next time we venture into D.C. on such a nice day we will get an earlier start... and maybe even take the Metro.