Visitors

We love visitors!! So you can only imagine our excitement when we had three visits this summer from family and friends.

In June, my brother, his wife, and son came for an optometry conference in the Washington DC area. We were able to stay with them at the National Harbor for part of the week. For the first few days, we took the metro to the National Mall to see some of the sites. Then they came to stay with us for a few days. We saw a lot, walked a lot, and had a lot of fun!!



Two months later, my parents came to stay with us for a week. We loved having them here, and here's a glimpse of what we did...

Tuesday: Duckpin Bowling















Wednesday: Gettysburg

Thursday: Smithsonian

National Air and Space Museum

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (near Washington Dulles Airport)

(Note: If you haven't been here and you like planes or have kids that like planes, you should really consider going. There is a $15 parking fee, but no entrance fee. There are a lot of interesting planes and artifacts that have to do with flying. There is also an observation tower where you can watch planes take off/land at Dulles airport. We had a lot of fun! My dad absolutely loved it...I think he took a picture of every single plane in the museum.)

Friday: Fort McHenry

Saturday: B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore

Orioles Baseball Game

(Funny story: There was only a 10% chance for rain. As we were getting out of the car to go to the metro for the baseball game, my mom asked if we should take the umbrellas. We all said we wouldn't need them. But lo and behold, we got the 10% chance for rain, and it was a good storm at that. If you can't tell from the bottom picture, we're drenched!!)

Sunday: Church

Mount Vernon

Games and Dessert with relatives in Alexandria

Monday: National Aquarium in Baltimore

Lunch at Five Guys

Time to say goodbye:(

And by the end of all of it, this is how my parents felt:).

Over Labor Day weekend, our good friends, Heidi and Isaac, came to visit. We gave them a tour of the city. We showed them where Andrew goes to school, walked around the Inner Harbor and Little Italy, and ate at Five Guys. We then took them for their first duckpin bowling experience. We finished off the day watching the big BYU vs. Oklahoma football game. It was a great relaxing weekend...playing games, eating yummy food, and talking up a storm. It was so good to have them here. We hated to see them go!