Our trip to D.C.

This year we traveled to Alexandria, VA, for Christmas. My grandmother and sister live there and my parents and brother and his two kids joined us there. It was nice to have everyone together because it had been a long time. I hadn't seen Grandma in two years and I know she was anxious to meet Caroline.

So, we started out the Monday before Christmas on our day long journey to the east. This was Caroline's first plane trip and she did great.



We were lucky to not encounter any delays in our travel going there even though D.C. had over 20 inches of snow 2 days earlier. We did get to see all that snow though. We made a couple of trips into D.C. to tour the Capital and the American History Museum. It was cold! We were missing our warm sunny weather back home. We used the Metro as our method of transportation. It was a bit of a pain with the stroller and all those escalators (had to keep searching out the elevators), but every time we got on a train, Caroline was out like a light. It was great!




This is Caroline on the Capital tour. She was a big hit with the tour guide because she laughed at his jokes. (Not really sure if she was laughing, but he seemed to think so, so we went along with it. lol)


Our trip back home did not go as smoothly as the trip out there. I'll spare you most of the details, but it took us over 30 hours to get home and that included a night spent in Chicago without luggage. It was quite an *adventure* to say the least. Caroline held up well for the first 20 or so hours, but by the last leg of the trip she was so done with the whole thing. I was just so glad to finally get home and let her sleep in her own bed. It gave me a whole new perspective on "home sweet home." Not to mention being able to shed all our layers and go outside without wearing coats.