DC, Day 1

Thanks to this break from school, I have FINALLY been able to sort through all of my DC pictures and post them on here. We left right after school on October 13th and flew to Chicago O'Hare, then connected to DC. We got to our hotel around midnight. Needless to say, we were all exhausted and couldn't wait to start the next day.

We took a trolley tour around the city to look all around and decide where we really wanted to go while we were there. 5 days may sound like a long time, but there is SO much to see that it was impossible to fit everything in that amount of time.

Union Station (where we caught our trolley)

We hopped off the trolley at the Lincoln Memorial. This day happened to be Karis's birthday, so she got to pick where we stopped that day. Without hesitation, she said she wanted to see Lincoln. I guess she must've learned some about him at school?...

Front of memorial.

This man was standing at the steps in front of the memorial. His sign says "Entertain me. I'm bored." You can't see in this shot, but there were news reporters and just random people all around him asking him questions!

Karis in front of Lincoln's statue. As you can probably tell by everyone's attire, it is freezing outside. The temperature never went above 60 degrees, which was NOT home weather. This was the only day that we saw a tiny bit of sunshine. It rained nonstop for the duration of our trip.

Our next stop was the Arlington National Cemetary. It was neat, yet sad at the same time. There are over 300,000 soldiers buried here, dating back to World War I.

We headed back to the hotel on the trolley, and by this time Karis was not feeling well. When we got back we found out she had a temperature of almost 103. She had a rough night.

Us 3 on the trolley heading back to the hotel.