monday began the vacation

We had a snag in our original plans to travel westward for our vacation.  We had reserved an RV here in the Emerald City, for the motor speedway city.  Turns out there was a double booking and we could only have the RV for a few days...not enough time to go to South Dakota as originally planned.  Wanting to keep this trip fun and historical, we decided to head north to DC to tour our nations capitol, then to Pennsylvania.  We were wanting to go into Philadelphia, but time didn't allow it.  We left bright and early Monday morning, and went the scenic route.  It was mowing day in Virginia.  We must have seen 50 mowers along our way.

Virginia has 7eleven gas stations and a must stop to make. 

Once we were into DC, our hotel...the Woodfin (Chase) Suites weren't quite ready so we decided to get onto the metro and go straight away into DC.  The Wardlings were amazed by the metro and had a blast on it.  It was their first time on a train/subway and they were in heaven.  We did have to say more than once to stop touching things and to get off the floor, but the ride was quite pleasurable.

The last time we were in Washington, we didn't make it to the Capitol Building.  That was our first stop this go around.  We were all very hot and very tired from the drive up.  It was just amazing to see.  We also hit the Botanical Gardens that day and decided to make it a day, returning to our hotel room by 7pm, giving the Wardlings an hour to unwind in the pool.

P was exhausted and crashed on the metro ride home.