Vacation Adventures: Day 2

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We had another great day today and YAY...we're in Washington DC!!  We started out our day around 9:30am and made it here around 7:00pm.  The drive (in mileage) wasn't nearly that long, but we took our time, drove through the mountains, and saw lots of beautiful and fun stuff.  Here's some shots from our day:

We started our day like this:

trying to dress a sleeping child.  Have you ever tried that?  It's hard work, I tell ya!
Then we saw lots and lots of this...

then it got really good...we went onto Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyline Parkway..it was beautiful beyond words...

 

then, thanks to a timer on our camera...we got this picture..one of my favorites, of course...

but really, the mountains today were just breathtaking.  Such a reminder of God's awesome power and majesty!

We also got (or I thought we got) some great pics of some deer that were standing along the highway...in several places...just looking at us, even when we stopped, but I can't find them right now (which has nothing to do with the fact that Noah snapped at least 700 hundred pictures with my camera and I'm having trouble finding the ones I took...nothing at all...HA)...anyway, maybe I can put them up tomorrow. 


I found the deer pictures...YAY!!  Here we go...

and this last one... well, he was getting away, but can you see that rack?  10 POINTS!

Here are a couple more shots that I found with the deer pics...

For now..we're all settled in and sleeping (except me, Richy, and Joshua) at our Aunt Julie's apartment...on the 14th floor in downtown Arlington, Virginia.  From her balcony, we can see over parts of DC and it's stunning...if only I could figure out how to take a picture at night that did it justice!  I have all week to keep trying for that picture.  Joshua got this picture...it's still alittle jittery, but very pretty in real life...

I hope you all have a wonderful Monday...for our day tomorrow, we're planning to take the Metro Rail into the heart of DC, see the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, the National Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of American History...and maybe eat hot dogs from a vendor on the street...we're so excited and can't wait! 

Until tomorrow night...
Love,
Rose