On Vacation

We decided that we were done vacationing in big cities, so when it came time to plan our vacation this year I looked into going to Oregon. It met our qualifications - cool weather with the possibility of rain, mountains and nature abounding and no major big cities. When we asked Preston where he wanted to go he chose Washington DC. The complete opposite - heat, humidity, lots of people and one very large city. Last year he had an amazing American history teacher who instilled in him a desire to see our nation's capital. So we waited until it was nice and hot and then spent 9 days in or around DC.

I have quite a reputation in my family for not making our vacations very relaxing and in fact usually we need a vacation from our vacation once we get home. I figure that while you are in place you need to see everything there is to see, who knows if you will ever be back. So granted we usually walk our legs off but we always have a good time. This year our flight left at 7:00 am so we had to be up early to get to the airport by 5:30 am to check our luggage and make it through security. Wisely, Garth and I went to bed early the night before, but our boys thought a party in the basement was a good idea and didn't make it to bed until 1:30 am. That makes for a very long day the next day and as a result this is what they did on the subway the first day and most of the days afterwards.
The rest of the vacation we all went to bed at the same time; Garth was up an hour earlier than I was and I was up an hour earlier than the boys but this is what we got every day.....

and this.... no matter where they were sitting or standing they would fall asleep.

Some how Garth and I were able to go all day without napping every time we sat down, although we did have a hard time when we watched a video and the lights went out. But we actually had to stop at 10 in the morning to let Jason take a nap or he wouldn't have made it through the day!

But this was just ridiculous though sleeping on a cement barricade while we waited for our bus! I know they are growing boys but really.

I'll do another blog with more pictures of our trip and put some in when the boys were awake because they were some of the time, especially when it came time to eat.