Lots to catch up on.......

What we've been up to the last 3 days will be coming. For now, we departed our hotel at 4:30 am est in hopes of beating any traffic issues. And while there was a huge accident on the other lanes causng traffic to back up, ours was smooth sailing. Currently, we are 68 miles from the West Virginia boarder. Although, we have no internet access so hard telling where we'll be when I get to post this.
Yesterday, we were back on the Mall to visit the Smithsonian's air and space museum and the national aquarium. I would never have guessed we would have stayed at the air and pace museum for 3+ hours. Many of their exhibits were hands on. They were able to see how all he parts of the plane work and which controls move which parts of the wings. There were also cockpits to explore as well as space aircraft to go through. We even felt a real moon rock. It was very cool. From there we ate lunch in he mall area where the girl feed more birds and a game of touch football was taking place. Next, we walked through a sculpture garden on the way to the national aquarium. We have many pictures from the aquarium to post later. After that we found out we were only a block away from the white house visitors center so we made a quick stop there before heading to the metro. The signs for the metro are not always the most obvious but we did find the federal triangle station after asking a passerby for help. Th girls took this to mean we were lost but that was not the case.
We went back to the hotel then Kelly, Katelyn, Allie and I walked to Popeye's Chicken to pick up dinner. Everyone packed up the majority of their belongings prior to heading to the pool one last time. After the pool, they showered, finished packing and got a little rowdy finishing up their snacks and root beer. Then off to bed so we could wake them at 3:45 this morning.  In talking with the breakfast room attendant yesterday, she said she would come in early to make sure we could get breakfast before we left as she was normally there at 4:30 every morning.
That's just another example of the kind people we encountered on this trip.
We now have about 10 miles left in west virginia, heading towards PA. Spotty internet is now done. :)