These past 4 days have been an exciting addition to our trip. On Wednesday (Day 29) we drove from Philadelphia to Maryland where Uncle Rick and Aunt Carolyn live. On the way we stopped at Gettysburg and saw all of that. But other than that we just hung out with Rick and Carolyn. On Thursday (Day 30) we decided that we wanted to go torture ourselves. Wednesday in D.C. brought weather that was about 90 degrees with somewhere around 1000% humidity. We had tickets to the White House so we went over there and waited in line for 1 and a half hours to get in. Well turned out that the white house lost 100 reservations for the day and we were of course one of them. So they took mom’s ID to see if they could find our reservation. So they came back 20 minutes later with it and told us that our reservation was for tomorrow. So we went on our way and looked around the Library of Congress and then continued on to do an excellent tour of the Capitol building. So we get back to Rick’s a house and we’re still upset about the White House, so we go to the reservation email and, lo and behold, our reservation was for the 29th! So that was the pure torture for the day. It wasn’t too bad of a day though because once we got back to Ricks house we watched some good ‘ol Jeeves and Wooster, which is probably the greatest comedy of all time. On Friday we went a little bit slower. We visited the National Cathedral and National Catholic Shrine. The Shrine was covered in mosaics and was very beautiful, while the Cathedral was the classic, massive, intricate type of cathedral that you always see. After those attractions, we had to drop Adrienne off at the airport. After Adrienne was gone, we went back to Rick’s house where we had dinner with our other uncle, Don, and his family. On Saturday Rick and I went to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. It’s not the one that’s on the Mall in DC but is out by Dulles Airport and is a giant hanger with around 150 aircraft, and a Space Shuttle. It was an amazing museum and we just about spent the whole day there, while the lady’s stayed at home and relaxed. And thus ended our D.C Tour.
P.S. Week 4 may be a week late but it's coming. It's done I just need to export in HD which takes hours.
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