More wrapping up school year activities....Ann-Marie started flute lessons shortly after Christmas and participated in her first recital at Elmcroft Nursing Home.
Ann-Marie attended her first gymnastics banquet (we have been on vacation other years) - it was fun to see her teammates all dressed up and reminisce about the accomplishments of our gym from the past year. Ann-Marie was awarded "The Most Improved", which she was really excited about.
Darrell had business in D.C. in June so we decided to pay our friends, the Blietz family, a visit. We had a great time with them!!!! We went did things in D.C. two of the days we were there....one day was rainy so we visited the indoor sections of the National Zoo - above was a snake approaching it's lunch....
a demonstration involving naked mole rats....
and we visited the
National Museum of Health and Medicine, which has some truly fascinating and disgusting exhibits. It is small, but jam packed with stuff. Darrell's favorite was the bullet on display that killed President Lincoln (below).
Another day was spent walking around D.C. and visiting some places like the fountain and sculpture gardens...
taking a tour of the National Mint.....
and visiting the National Archives as well as....
the Jefferson Memorial.......
notice some extra kids in the picture? We took some of the Blietz kids each day we went and they were a blast to hang out with!!!!
Also, the kids took the pictures most of the day....above was Evan's favorite Jefferson quote...
as well as Ann-Marie taking a picture of Alec taking a picture of Ann-Marie!
and the Washington Memorial under scaffolding again.
We love visiting Maryland and D.C.....I'm sure we'll be back again soon.
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