May Vacay Pics #2

Here is the second round of pictures!!  We visited Old Alexandria and Georgetown...

 We went to eat lunch at a BBQ place called Old Glory!  It was ok...

 But the HIT of lunchtime, or afterwards rather, was definitely the cupcakes!  At famous Georgetown Cupcakes from TLC's show.

 

 Then took a trip to the National Cathedral...which was just breathtakingly beautiful...and SO grand....Liam just wanted to climb the stairs.

This was our monument and memorial sightseeing day....

 Dustin got some GREAT pictures of the Washington Monument...You'll have to wait til my July 4th post to see the other amazing shots...

 Liam and I on our trek back down...

 The Korean War memorial was really neat...These statue men were all traveling uphill in what was made to look like swamp land, with shiny marbled slabs within thick ferns...

 It also had a reflecting wall that was purposely made so you could see your image among the faces printed on the wall...

 This is one of my favorite pictures...and memorials...My favorite historical figure is Mr. Lincoln...so I love this shot of all of us....not to mention Liam is still AND smiling...

 View outside Lincoln memorial towards the reflecting pool...which was under massive construction which kinda stunk...it was totally drained...booo.

 This was a picture of the sculpture when entering the Vietnam memorial.  All the war memorials were so neat.  They all give great insight and perspective.

 This was another one of my favorite memorials...Roosevelt Memorial..It was a long, pathed outdoor memorial, featuring a lot of waterfalls and unique sculpture scenes from his presidency.  I think I like it because Liam had a lot of room to move and run around. 

 The binky bait...he didn't want to leave the memorial!  He had a great time seeing all the waterfalls and climbing on all the rock benches, we had to coax him to keep moving on!

 These were some bike racks (?) I think...Liam was having a ball running under and through them...

 And last but not least, the Jefferson Memorial....

I loved all the writings they had of Jefferson's inscripted on the walls surrounding his statue...Very cool...And this picture was so neat...I remember having to memorize this speech of his in particular...

The next day, we went to Liam's and my first air show!

 Needless to say, it's one of the safest places I think I've ever been...or it felt safe with these guys around!

 Andrew took some great shots of all the sky action...Liam and I mainly stayed on the "inland" for these, as he wouldn't wear the ear plugs...The Thunderbirds were last (thank God!) and unfortunately were EXTREMELY loud, so we had to get moving quick to the car, as Liam was freaking out every time they did fly-bys...which seemed to be quite often.  So we watched on our way to the car, while I tried to time the fly-bys with cupping my hands over his ears....That only freaked him out more.  It was really fun though, and I would love to go to another show when Liam is older.  He did enjoy some of the quieter planes and was even asking for "more"!

 Dustin and Andrew stayed a little later at the air show, while Crystal and I headed home with Liam.

 And after a wonderful baby shower for Crystal (yes, she was a total champ and sightseed with us everywhere, being 33 weeks pregnant...she's amazing!), we visited the famous Eastern Market on Sunday and ate some famous crepes that were OH SO YUMMY!!

And that night, we ended our week with a great dinner with more family!  Dustin's cousin, Andrew, lives in DC, so we met up with him and his girlfriend for dinner.  It had been awhile since these three cousins last saw eachother!  Great ending to a wonderful week!!

So as you can SEE, we had such a great time!!  Thanks for taking time to see all of our sights!  And don't forget to check back at the blog tomorrow for a special 4th picture post!