Sunday

 I am glad you are having a good time.  I love going to museums.  We had a good day.  We went to church and I played the piano.  It was fun to do.  The sister missionaries sang and played the ukulele which was really nice.  We ran errands when we got home and went grocery shopping for the week.  Then we went hiking to White pine lake.  We had the best time.  It was so pretty and so much cooler.  We were flying.  We were going 3 - 3.5 miles per hour.  Usually uphill we get 1 mph but Oliver was on fire today and we were able to go fast.  It was so fun.  Last year it took us an hour to the to a sign post but today we made it in 20 minutes.  It was really fun and so pretty.  Tony gets so excited when we get our packs out.  He went and sat in the car so we wouldn't leave him, it was cute.

Love Rachel 

Sunday

 It didn't feel as hot today because we were in mueseums that were right next to each other. We went to the natural history mueseum. It was so nice. I felt indoctrinated with evolution but the dispays were so nice. My favorite was the African part. We actually got cold in there. We spent most of our time there. We went to the American history museum and they had a great area on food. I enjoyed that. Julia child donated her whole.kiychen to the mueseum. It was huge. I had never heard of a whole room being donated. We were all stiff and tired so we came home and played cards. We played rummy. I haven't done that in a long time. We did have one downside. The air-conditioned is broke in our hotel. Yesterday they said it would be repaird today. Today they said it would be repaired tomorrow. It is 80 degrees tonight. We have complained. We do have lots of fans so that helps. We are going to China town tomorrow and the Ford theater. We are hoping to have Chinese food for lunch. It is all within walking distance from our hotel. They will keep our suitcases for us until we have to leave. We get home around 9 tomorrow night. Rachel that lakes looks fun. I am glad oliver got his hat. Robin I am excited I got picked to go on the field trip with luna. Love mom

Sunday

 We had a good day. We went to the natural history museum, the American history museum, and the African history museum. After that we were tired so we got on the metro. We briefly stopped and got food for dinner and then headed to our hotel. Tomorrow we are planning to hit China town and then head to the airport. I hope everyone had a great day. Bye

Happy birthday Karen

 I am glad you are having a fun trip.  I love the pictures.  I am sorry Luna had a hard day, that sounds like a really long day.  Casey's caving friends wife does photos so he got me her number.  Thanks for getting them done also, I am excited.  This morning Isaac had driver's Ed.  They drive around as course in Smithfield so I dropped him off and went to exercise class which was high and I had so much fun.  Last we we ordered a really expensive field detector so we could find gold up in the mountains.  This morning we went and got a old metal detector off of ksl.  It will be fun.  We picked up Isaac and met up with Randy then went up to Idaho and went fishing in his boat.  It is so beautiful up there and the leafs are starting to change.  It ended up being winding and they had to go to a different dock to get out.  They caught two small fish that we couldn't keep.  Oliver's hat fell in the water and he fell in while trying to get it.  A really nice guy kayaked over to it and got it for us.  We had a fun time overall.

Love Rachel 

Saturday

​Luna fell asleep so early last night. I had a hard time falling asleep so I didn’t go to bed till late. Then Luna woke up early. I was tired and felt under the weather.So we watched sponge bob. We needed to get our truck inspected. So we took that and got it done. Basics the second we left the house till the time we got back Luna so was emotional. I think she cried for 2 hours straight. While the car was getting Inspected I took her to slim chickens and got chicken nuggets. She calmed down for a bit but then something made her upset again. The Grover’s daughter had a play tonight we went to. I told Luna she could have chocolate if she didn’t cry the whole time. It worked and she did great. It was a long day of emotions for the little one. We are planning on taking it slow tomorrow to reset. I’m glad your trip is fun. Thanks rachel for setting up pictures for us

Robin

Saturday

 Vacation has turned out really fun. Today we really did it all. My legs are tired. I bet i almost got as many steps as rachel today. 20578. We at the archives and saw a lot of the documents. I was surprised how faded they were. It was hard to even tell what they were. Man was there a lot of security. We went to the art mueseum. We had lunch there. We walked over to the gardens by the capital. Casey would have loved it there.  We went over to the capital and took a tour. It is a beautiful building. I was really surprised that most of the pillars are made out of sandstone instead of marble. The tour was nice. You could walk over to the library of congress through a tunnel. What a beautiful building. It didnt look like there were any books. We went to the lookout and you could see.them all. You had to have a card to go.in and touch them. They checked our bags to make sure we didnt have any books on our way out. We got a.crazy idea.to go see the Lincoln memorial at the other end. We hopped on trax and got off by the washington monument. We walked over to the Lincoln memorial. It was a ways. Luckily they did have an elevator up to the statue. It was magnificent. We walked back to trax and came home. We were going to eat out but the places we picked was closed. Go figure. We just came home and had dinner. We are going back to the mall and pick a few mueseums we haven't seen. It wont be so much walking tomorrow. Unless we go back to the Lincoln memorial. The chances.of that are slim. it is hot and humid. Have a great Sunday. I cant believe how fast time is going. Love mom

Friday

 Today was good.  Work was slower this morning and I worked on somewhere reports.  I had some change orders in the afternoon.  For cross country Isaac ran to Aggie ice cream and they got a free one then they drove him back.  I picked him up after work.  Ruth's friend Liliana came home and they walked over to the park and had fun.  I was so proud of Oliver, he had a bad grade in math so he talked to his teacher and figured out what was going on.  Then we worked on what he was missing today.  He knew how to do everything and had been paying attention.   He is doing great.  Oliver had a birthday party and then he played D&D at the library.  He had a lot of fun at both of them.  Isaac had a cross country dinner at the park and then he went out with his friends.  Ruth's pants ripped and we tried to find a new pair but shopping is so emotional for her.  We didn't get anything.  I am glad you guys are having fun and we love seeing the pictures.

Love Rachel