We spent 8 wonderful days travelling to the East Coast to to FINALLY meet almost all of the rest of Jonny's family that the little boys and I have never met before.
We left on Sunday and after about 6 hours of travel had a wonderful stop over in Ohio to visit with a childhood friend of Jonny's...
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| Jonathan and Paul |
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| Paul and Renee's dog, Moses:) Wyatt really enjoyed getting to take him on a walk! |
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| Renee and Tuck doing some bedtime reading:) |
We took another 7 hours on Monday and arrived at Trevor and Karissa's new house in Philly.
More on that later:)
We left at about 4:30 am on Tuesday morning and drove to Washington, DC
to hang out with Alli and Jonny's Aunt Gina and her friend Barbara. We
had an AMAZING time walking ALL OVER DC!! We saw soooo many amazing
sites and ate a lot of yummy food and had amazing tours at the White
House and the Capitol. What a great time we had made all the better by
our great tour guide Alli and being with Aunt Gina!
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| Arlington National Cemetary |
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| Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington. |
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| Witnessing our own piece of history! The space shuttle was flown in to DC and we got to see it as it flew over the Pentagon!! |
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| Our group who toured the Capitol and White House (Jonny's Aunt Gina is in the middle, his Aunt Sue and Uncle Tim on the far right, with Alli, Barbara, and Francis-Heidi's friend from Uganda). We are standing on the Speaker's Balcony (Speaker of the House John Boehner) at the Capitol |
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| In front of Lincoln's Memorial |
On Wednesday we arrived around 11:30 pm back at Karissa and Trevor's. In case you didn't figure it out...we left our boys with Karissa for 2 days, which means that she was watching 5 kids all under the age of 7!!! She is our hero:):)
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| Tucky and Auntie Fwissa:) |
While there we enjoyed a fun trip to Longwood Gardens. A beautiful and big garden that the kiddos enjoyed running all over in and seeing lots of pretty flowers. Plus, we made a yummy trip to Rita's...a super yummy custard place:)
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| The brood at Longwood Gardens! |
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| Tuck looks like he is ready to run away! At least we are all looking in the same direction! |
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| RITAS!!!!!!!!!!! |
We left their house on Friday and headed to Jonny's Uncle John and Aunt Sue's house about an hour and a half away. We arrived just in time for an amazing grilled pork dinner and some fun times to just get to know (for the boys and I) and reacquaint ourselves with them. The last time Jonny had seem them was about 8 years ago!!
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| Tucker, Madaket, Luke, Uncle John, Jonny, Wyatt, and Aunt Sue |
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| Wyatt got to go to the Fish Hatchery and feed some crazy trout yummy food:) |
Saturday was a great day hanging out with a lot more family and food and fun:)
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| BePa, MomMom, Jonny, Tuck, Christen and Wyatt |
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| Aunt Gina and Jesse with Tuck! |
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| Anna and MomMom with Tuck...he is so good about smiling for the camera! |
We must brag on our boys....we spent many hours logged in the van and for all those hours in the van, missing nap times, and LOTS of new people met....I would say that they were amazing!!!! I had very low expectations on how I thought things would go down with sleepy, cranky, fussy kids....and I was very happily disappointed:)
We headed toward home on Sunday morning with a fun layover in Toledo to see Jonny's mom and dad before the headed off on their big vacation to Switzerland!! They were so gracious to have us even though they needed to pack. It was fun to just sit on their bedroom floor while they packed and talk and look through old photo albums:)
Monday morning brought us back in the van on our finally leg of the journey...just 6 hours. But, the DVD player became our companion for just about that long. I think that we ALL were ready for our big adventure to reach home:)
