We’ve been in D.C. since Saturday night. We arrived at around 9ish–we were originally supposed to be in after 11:00 PM, but our flight was overbooked and they asked for 2 people to switch flights. We volunteered and as a result, in addition to getting 2 $250 flight vouchers, a $20 food voucher, and free ground transportation, we pretty much walked immediately onto the flight we were switched to and had a shorter layover. We’re hopeful they’ll ask for 2 people to switch flights on the way home as well! We’re planning to use the vouchers to fly to Atlanta to see our neice who was born in January. Granny would have been proud!
So far we’ve seen the capitol, the Museum of Natural History, the Library of Congress, the Air and Space Museum, the International Spy Museum, and the Washington Monument. Tomorrow we tour the White House, and we also plan to visit the Museum of America History, the Nat’l Archives, and who knows what else. The great thing about D.C. is that the only thing we’ve had to pay an admission fee to was the spy museum. We did pay to see a movie in the planetarium ($6.50 each) and we’ve bought some nifty souvenirs for the boys. The Metro train takes you wherever you want to go and it’s pretty cheap. That leaves you only having to worry about food, which isn’t cheap, but oh well.
We did eat in a neat restaurant called Ben’s Chili Bowl which we saw featured on the Travel Channel. It is highly endorsed by Bill Cosby.
Granny is doing okay. Dad (Dale) went to Topeka and will take papacape to COldwater Friday. Probably come to Liberal then. Then who knows! Have had nice weather (up to 80′s) and cooler today, wednesday. I went to bank movie today, saw The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, Don Knotts. I won a drawing and got a pot of yellow tulips. Veery pretty. love you all.
Hope everyone had a good time. I hear several were able to see Papa Cape this week. Hope the girls all had a good time.