Vacation - Day 4

Tuesday morning we had another visit with Grandpa. As I mentioned, he was having a hard time on Monday with who we were and the conversations that were taking place. He was a different man today! He knew who we were, he knew that Bonnie was Gabe's mom, and he made relevant connections to the conversations taking place. He even randomly asked me about Kentucky schools, when I had not even mentioned teaching. I am so glad that we were able to visit him on a good day like this! Talking with his Uncle Fred, it had been a long time since Grandpa had had this great of a day! Man do we feel lucky! Snuggling with Great-Grandpa. I am pretty sure they could have dozed off together. :)

Owen with Ms. Becky (grandpa's care-taker). She is so sweet!

Giving Great-Grandpa a big hug!

After our visit with Grandpa, we decided to head to D.C. for the day. We drove close to Alexandria, VA to catch a ride on the metro.

It was a little chilly. Here is Owen in his winter gear. (The Old Navy pea-coat was $2 from a thrift store and his Adidas hat was 47 cents from Gabe's store. We are pretty proud of these great deals!)

Owen and I on the metro for the first time.

Washington Monument

We walked through the National Art Gallery Walk. I think Owen liked the house.

The tree was pretty neat too!

When we first got off the metro, we were very close to the Natural History Smithsonian museum, which is where we planned to go. However, we were hungry, so we decided to walk to Union Station and grab a bite to eat. When we got back to the Natural History museum around 3:30, we saw a sign that they closed at 3:00 that day. Bummer! So....we decided to go check out the Air and Space Museum.

Owen decided he would rather push the stroller than ride in it.

After his hard work, he needed to refresh himself.

Gabe and Owen inside of a Jumbo Jet.

I had to take a picture of this for Pops. He has been teaching Owen morse code. :) Just in case you were wondering Owen is (O) -dah dah dah (W) -dit dah dah (E)-dit (N) -dah dit. (By the way, sorry Dad, I had to look this up. Maybe one day I will remember it.)

Owen and Gabe with the Wright Brothers

After all of our fun, we got back on the metro and headed back to our car. Sounds simple, doesn't it? Not so much! When we got back to the station we headed out to where we thought our car was. Looked in the parking garage, didn't see it....huh? We walked some more and found another parking garage...didn't see our car. Gabe, being a man, did not want to ask someone how to find our car. Me...not so much! After carrying Owen around for 25 minutes looking for our car, I asked and found out that there are apparently 2 exits from the metro station. Oops! Once we went out the correct exit, it was pretty simple to find our car. :) By the way, I am being nice, I had taken pictures of the same escalator we rode on a lot of times and the same parking garages we kept looking at because Gabe apparently thought our car would magically appear. Haha. Love you babe! :) Anyway, since we were so close to Gabe's cousin and her family we decided to go and visit with Jaime and Chris and their two little girls Alice (super cute curly headed 2 year old) and Dorothy (six weeks old). After an eventful day, we headed back to his aunt and uncle's house and Owen being the trooper that he is still decided to play with Uncle Fred for a little bit before heading to bed.