September 16, 2007 Catch up time!

Okay, I figured the best thing to do is skip the cross country trek (which was waaaaay cool) and get right to living in DC. The move was CRAZY and it is waaaaay too much for me to think about back tracking at this point. Anyway - living in DC is a total adventure in and of itself!

I will post photos of the house soon because we are planning a HUGE renovation and I want to record the before and after. Not to mention all the fun that will occur in between - NOT! But as they say, "no pain, no gain". The house is fine for us to live in right now but is seriously outdated - as you will one day see.

Currently our schedule is... Mike has class Mon - Fri from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. I take class on Tues and Thurs from 1 to 5 p.m. I could have gone 20 hrs a week like Mike but scheduling was difficult and in the end I just wasn't ready to put my babies in daycare. This way Mike has them 2 afternoons a week. So, when Mike finishes class on Tues and Thurs I drive up with the kids and he takes them to various monuments, parks etc with a picnic lunch then home for a nap. On Fridays we also go pick him up and the whole family has a picnic lunch and we explore some aspect of DC. The Friday thing just started 2 weeks ago. Now that we finally have the house in order. Our first family adventure was to the Air and Space Museum. We had lunch in a garden across from DOE and a block down from the museum. The garden was AWESOME! The kids, of course, played in the fountains and got soaked but - who cares it's only a bazillion degrees here!

The museum was tons of fun. The kids went nuts when they saw all the planes and rockets. We spent about an hour and a half on the first floor. Most of that time was in the "how do planes fly" area. That was really cool and Mike and I learned quite a bit about the physics of flight! The beauty of this day is that it was 100% free! I love S.D. but the museums could be quite pricey especially when you have kids who just cannot attend long enough to really get your moneys worth.

Okay, here are a few photos:

Well, I wanted photos here but apparently I can't do that... yet! I've gotta go put the kids to bed and do my spanish homework so I'm gonna have to play with this later.

Chau!