Washington D.C./Virginia

We were so happy that what started out

as a small group going to Virginia to see

Matt n' Mel turned into a big group!

They live about 20 minutes out of D.C.

so we did some sightseeing with the

couple of days we had out there and also

celebrated Chelsea's birthday.

Before that, Allen flew out to New York on

June 5th for the Goldman Sachs training.

It worked out perfect, because he met us in Virginia

after he was done, and even though Camille and I

got lost finding his bus station...he was still so kind to give me 

flowers when we picked him up :)

We loved the city of Alexandria where Matt n' Mel

live (in VA) and loved seeing D.C.

and being with fam!
It was definitely hot and humid, more than I expected.
It brought me back to the feeling of Miami. 

While in D.C. we visited, of course, The White House

and some other historical buildings and

I fell in love with all of the architecture.

The Smithsonian has a lot of different museums and we went to the

museum of natural history and the air and space museum.

We also saw the capitol building, the supreme court, washington monument,

and the jefferson memorial. Hopefully I named the right things :)

We saw a lot in so little time.

Here's some of the fun:

 The birthday girl, Chels

 Chels, me, and Devee

capitol building

 The Library of Congress

 The White House

 Josh, Stacey, and Cam. We got to have some good q.t. with them, because we got lost on the way back to our car. We valet parked in the morning and for some completely unknown reason the valet paper had their headquarter address listed instead of the parking garage address where we actually parked. This meant the car was about half hour walk away, but we ended up walking for a good 2 hours (and we had already been walking all day in the heat so it was time to be done ha). Did I mention D.C. is really hot and humid? My chacos were giving my feet blisters from rubbing up against my feet so we took a CVS stop and bought treats and drinks...and I bought myself some black and turquoise water shoes that look like the ones below. hot stuff! We finally made it to the real parking garage and were puzzled why they didn't have the correct address on the paper and told them to let their manager know. We found out we actually walked right past the correct parking garage at one point, but since we didn't have the right address we just walked right past it and kept walking and walking and walking. We were late to Chelsea's birthday party, but were so glad to finally sit down!

the water shoes looked similar to these...mm hmm lookin stylish on the streets of D.C.

 This lady protests right by the white house and has been there for 30 years. Her poster (see below) says she is there 24 hours a day. where does she use the potty? We were with Allen's cousin Josh and his wife Stacey (she had her little boy Cam in a stroller) and this protest lady (we'll call her Helga because she just looks like a Helga to me) came up and said, "move the stroller, it's blocking my posters and message." We couldn't understand her too well, but she kept mumbling things then finally she took a huge poster and stuck it right in front of Cam's stroller. Rude. She does not own that property and therefore has no say where people can walk their strollers. Ok, enough of that...moving on now.

 Chels and Lily

Washington Monument

 air and space museum

 Me n' the Wright brothers

 Olivia birthday cake that Dani and Melanie made

 Yeah, I already know I look lovely in this picture..but the purpose of it is b/c Cam is in it. We became good buds and hung out at the birthday party all night. bright blue eyes and red hair. the red hair from his mama and blue eyes from his dad. cutie pie!

Sorry Matt, but I had to post this picture of Lucy playing in Al's suitcase.

Churchill Fam June 2011

Sorry for such a long post, but it's my online journal :)

Happy 4th of July weekend!!!