Day 9 - Road Trip 2014

PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES!!!!!  OK just trains & automobiles!!!

The fact that I did not get arrested before we ever made it to DC this morning is a miracle!!

We left Brentsville this morning with verbal directions to Manassas (10 min away).  Made it 1/2 way and got turned around.  Called Brent...he was watching us on Find My Friends so he knew how to guide us into town...with 10 minutes til our train was scheduled to leave.  While we are on the phone, I see the parking garage and turn to get to it...I mean time is ticking!!  I am not sure if I heard the honking first or saw the front of 2 lanes of cars heading right for me.  So, I at least hang up the phone before I wave the cars around me so I can get to the next cross street ... made it to the garage!  Drove in and around in circles saw a police women and asked if I could park and she said yes if you prepaid your ticket when you pulled into the garage!  What?  We go ahead and park and find a machine to buy a ticket...train leaving in 5 minutes!!!  Buy the parking ticket, put it on the dash and run to the train station.  Have to use a machine to buy our train tickets ... one at a time ...OMG!!!  Taking a deep breath with 2 minutes to spare, call Brent to let him know we made it and then he says...did you validate your tickets?  What?  The man who I have felt watching us waves at me and says...you use the same machine.  Run back to the machine and right when we are done the train pulls up!  Woohoo!  As we start to get on the train, a very nice lady says...I am a mom and just so you know this is the quiet car!  What?  She points us to the "other" cars and we get on right as the doors are closing!!!  We look for a seat and find 4 perfect seats.  We look up and see the funniest sign about shoes...I took a picture of it and a picture of my shoes!  You will crack up!!!  We had to be just like a TV show to all of the commuters!!!  As the very nice train attendant comes by, I realize we are sitting in the handicap seats.  She finds seats for us...separated but good!  I thought Sterling was going to have a heart attach!  He looks at me before he moves to his new seat and says...Daddy is going to be mad at you!  What?  Ha!  

We made it didn't we? :) And just for the record...no he is not!! (insert face sticking tongue out)

Arrived to Judge/Congressman Carters office 30 minutes early for our capital tour!!!  Woohoo!

It was great!  We loved, Emily, the Aggie intern who took us on our tour and the May family from Georgetown that was with us.  

We had great pizza at We, the, Pizza!  I highly recommend it! We took a cab!  

Austin needs a We, the, Pizza!

Then we headed to the National Archives Museum and stole the Declaration of Independence!  

HA!!  We tried to reenact the movie National Treasure :) As we got in another cab, Kenedy shows him our purchased copy of the DOI and says "we stole the Declaration of Independence"  Sterling almost jumped out of the car!  He says Kenedy you have to stop saying that!!!  HAHA!!  

We got back to Union Station, bought & validated tickets and boarded our train to Manassas like pros.  We are fast learners :)

We took some pictures tonight of Uncle Brent's Zoo.  Willie, the tortoise.  Moses, the goat dog.  Rhett, the scarlet macaw. Ox, the scaly nape amazon.  The Emu birds, guineas, cockatoos, macaws, golden conures, and African greys.  I think that covers all of the pictures :)

Morgan, who works for Brent, brought his fishing tackle over to share with Sterling.  He caught a snake head fish yesterday and had pictures...yucky!!!

Our laundry is done.  Bags are packed.  Kids are asleep.  

We are ready to head home tomorrow!

2014/07/14