


Lo and behold - a mile marker 105 in Virginia i caught back up with my at&t signal and since then my black jack has been working. Weird.
Today was mostly traveling, but we did stop in DC again. This time at the FDR memorial. Which was awe-inspiring as always. So many of the thoughts he had still ring true today. Of course it took us a little longer to find it - Courtney was giving directions to Teddy Roosevelt's island and memorial and I was giving directions to FDR's memorial. Quite funny when we figured it out! I do have lots of pictures fem today and the last few days; i hope to get them up once we get back home.
We all had a good time walking thru the memorial and playing with the water Chayton started playing a little kick ball, Nazeriah was singing and Kaija became our official photographer - she got a great one of Chayton (as well as some trees, the Washington memorial and some great stuff in the gift shop). Chayton soon let us know it was time to go and we headed back to the car to continue our journey.
The drive has been fairly uneventful, thank goodness. The girls have been plugged into the dvd player and we've sung a few hundred versions of itsy bitsy spider, twinkle twinkle and little bunny foo-foo (revised slightly). Okay not hat many, but Chayton is getting pretty good at all the hand signs for those songs.
We surprised the girls with Wendy's for lunch (no ff tho) and at dinner we lucked out. There's a Panera that we know of that we usually stop at when we head to DC. This time there was a new restaurant (and a line completely around Best Buy - what was that about?). Th restaurant was Noodles & Company and was very good. A nice change from the normal travel food and a break from Panera. Everyone (except Chayton) ate without complaining. C didn't eat - that doesn't bode well for tonight. He's gotten a little bit of a dry cough ... Let's hope that is all it is.
Now we are at exit 7b and in a bit of traffic. But the only traffic we've hit his whole time was heading out of DC (construction work) and this (who knows why we were all stopped).
Melissa
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Onto the next treat ... Before we left, we all got to pick out a sugary cereal - any one we wanted. Normally these boxes wouldn't see the light of day at our house, but today we had a snack of: coco puffs (nazeriah), lucky charms (kaija) and cap'n cruch w/ crunch berries (mom,dad and chayton). Yum, yum!
Now on our way to Richmond. Next stop dinner. Which was at the oh so fashionable and healthy Cracker Barrel in Virginia, where we sat next to Elvis (his jeweled jumpsuit must have been at the cleaners - he was weaing jeans.) Courtney and I got to have our first sweet ice tea of the trip. Chayton was having a good ol' time "drinking" his cup of water (read dumping it all over himself) and eating everyone's food - he loved the corn (will go nicely with the bright pink and purple and green crunch berries).
Now we are back on the road for a short drive to Richmond and our hotela for the night.
Melissa
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It has started a little different than i had planned ... Kaija is home sick and we decided to keep Chayton home another day (from being sick, too). So it just means that Courtney needs to stay with the kids and not me. I am a big girl after all (so i keep trying to convince myself).
So in a little while we will head out to TLC Eye Center. Wish me luck!
Melissa
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