Home Safe and Sound

Wow, what a trip! I feel like it was a whirlwind of going here and there, seeing all that there is to see in that area. We didn't even scratch the surface!
We have seen Yorktown, Williamsburg, the outside of Jamestown (it closed before we could make it) Virginia Beach, a few Army posts, and one Marine Post (not on purpose).
Made a million wrong turns, and almost wet my pants several times with laughter.
Perhaps my favorite day was our last, which we spent in DC. We took a hop on hop off tour bus around DC We saw the National Archives, The Smithsonian (Museum of history) (the hope diamond was in there wooooo hooooo ) Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Memorial (very awesome!!!!! ) The White house of Course, the Department of Engraving (Loads of money there)Union Station, Thomas Jefferson Memorial. I think that was it. Whew!!! my calves hurt.
We didn't get to go see Arrlington because we ran out of time. I would have loved to see more but alas, I guess we will just have to go back.

The trip home however wasn't as fun :0) Woke up at 3:45 DC time, cab arrived at 4:50 and was off to catch the 8:00 flight out of DC. My Aunt stayed for a wedding up in Pennsylvania, so I was on my own. Made the flight to Seattle fine and arrived in Seattle 5 hours later at 10:00am Pacific time. Tried to get on the 11:00 flight (got bumped) tried the 1:00 (got bumped) Had a sure fire plan to catch the flight into Lewiston and then on to Boise at 2:30....... I got on!!!! yea.... oh wait..... Landed in Lewiston with mechanical problems so had to unload the plane. Didn't look like I was going to make it out of there. But thanks to a mechanic that was flown in from Boise we made it to Boise at 9:30pm Mountain time. WHAT A LONG DAY!!!!! It was wonderful to see the kids... Man I missed them... Tomorrow we get to go and get Christian from Montana YEA!!!!


I wanted to say thanks to my Aunt Sue.... She is just about the funnest Aunt out there and she was able to fly me there on a buddy pass. If I had to take anyone with me for a fun trip besides John of course I would pick her. She was a hoot... full of fun and laughter. I'll miss ya this week.

John comes home in Four weeks... The countdown begins! Can't wait to have him home. We are planning on lots of camping and fun with the kids this summer to make up for all the lost time.

Trip to visit John

I'm in Virginia with John. I landed in DC on Wednesday the 20th. John picked us up at the airport at around 4:30pm. You'd think that we would be able to go back to John's hotel (2 hours away) right at that point, but no, our bags wouldn't be arriving unitl 10:30 pm.
So into DC we went to do a bit of sight seeing before our bags arrived. Rush hour was not the best time to get our first experience of Washington DC! These people are nuts. Bikers, drivers and pedestrians are all CRAZY!!!!

After we grabbed our bags we began the 4 hour trip to his hotel in Virginia that should have only taken 2 hours.. What a wacky trip.

John had to work on both Thursday and Friday so my Aunt Sue and I were pretty much on our own for those days. Thursday was a relatively safe however Friday we headed to the mall. You wouldn't think that we could keep ourselves busy in a mall all day but somehow (with an awesome shoe sale at Dillards) we were able to occupy ourselves.... (How am I ever going to get these shoes home on the plane) :0)

Saturday we headed out to get a taste of the history that is sooooo abundant in this area. First it was Yorktown and then Williamsburg where we spent most of the day. I wish that the kids were there because we spent soooooo much time studying the revalutionary war last year.

Tomorrow (Sunday) we are headed to Virginia Beach for some fun in the sun.
I'd better go to bed..... this time change is really messing with my head. Its 12:30am and it feels like its 10:30...... John is nodding off on the couch and wondering why I'm not going to bed :0)
I wish that he was coming home the same time as I was....
I'll miss him when I leave!
Hi kids! I miss you tons!

I AM TALKING TO MYSELF!!!!!!!

Well hello self! How are you doing today? Fine thankyou... and you? oh yes, I'm doing splendid.... going a bit crazy but all in all just fine.
What are you up to these days.... well nothing much.... trying to decide how to get more involved with people around here..

Well as you can see.... I'm going a bit nutty.... not a whole ton of friends to keep me occupied and I can feel sanity slipping minute by minute :0)
Hee hee hee......
I guess I should get up and do something productive! This talking to myself nonsense is not so fun after all.....

Bye everyone (which is really just me myself and I) oh yea and Brandon! Love ya kid!