Better Late Than Never

Happy Birthday Dove and Keith. . .

Photos from DC

In March the family spent a week Smithsonianing, and to places like the Washington Zoo and Washington Monument (both are free like so many other great things there). I meanwhile whiled the days away in a lovely suburban industrial complex (computer class). Here we are:

Doesn't your heart just soar with patriotic fervor?

Oak chillin' at the George W Monument.

Yes, that is my hair, and yes, it was more windy than you could possibly imagine.

Oak got 2nd place in this airplane contest, which is cool since the boy has been INTO paper airplane design like you wouldn't believe the past year now....he's really quite good at some advanced designs. He even has a favorite paper airplane design engineer.

It snowed, was hot, rained, was windy...
we got it all on the Mall.

Street food is the best...
kind of like food you cook when you camp.

I think the kids had the most fun jumping on our hotel beds and riding on the Metro (much to the chagrin of our fellow commuters). Here's the goods:








And finally, as a parting gift for our faithful blog readers (you know who you are!), here we are, the lovely bride and groom only 10 years young, circa Spring 2007: