A Week in Washington

March break has just ended (someone pointed out that they don't call it Spring Break for a reason), and toute la famille is back from our trip to Washington. We went to D.C. for the first time two years ago over March break specifically to go to the zoo and see the pandas. With two panda mad little girls, it seemed like a good way to spend a week. Also, it's a ten hour drive from Ottawa, so is pretty do-able.

This year we were back again, for a whole week of sightseeing, visiting the zoo, and traipsing through museums. Murray and I are joking that the girls will grow up to say, "Yeah, all the other kids got to go to Disney World for March Break but our parents made us go to Washington and spend a week at the Smithsonian.

Here they are copping an attitude in front of the White House.

The highlight of the trip this time around (besides the hotel swimming pool of course) was seeing the Lincoln Memorial. Sarah was so enthralled she bought a children's biography of Lincoln and read it through in two days.