Weekend in Washington D.C.

Chad and I decided to take a couples get away before the new babe is born. Chad goes to D.C. every year for work and I have never been; he knows all the fun spots and knew his way around so well that we had a really fun time! We left early Friday morning and spent most of the day flying. I have the worse time flying because my ears don't always pop and my head feel like it is going to implode, we found these amazing things called EarPlanes, I tried them and they worked like a charm, they are my new best friend :)

We flew on United the whole way.

That night we stayed in Crystal City at the Hyatt, GORGEOUS!

This is the Lobby of our Hotel, wow!

This is a picture of our room, I got spoiled. It was so nice (thanks babe!)

We walked around the beautiful Crystal City for a while that night and stopped for dessert and then headed back to our room for the evening.

The next morning we got up bright and early and took the metro into D.C. to the mall area. On the way we saw the Arlington National Cemetary. When we got to the mall area we walked the loop and saw all the Monuments, the Capitol building, the Washington Monument; we saw the Jefferson Memorial across the water, we were there a week before the Cherry Blossom Festival and the trees were starting to bloom. We then headed over to the World War II Memorial, and the Lincoln Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial was amazing up so close.

Arlington National Cemetary

D.C. Metro

The Capitol Building

Chad and the Washington Monument

Jefferson Memorial and the Cherry Blossoms

World War II Memorial

Lincoln Memorial . Chad was getting tired of posing for all my pics.

We finished the morning up with some shopping and a visit to the Air and Space Smithsonian to take some cool pics. to show the kids when we got home.

After getting gifts for everyone, we headed back to Crystal City to get ready for Chad’s track meet. The meet was at the Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex, it was a huge facility with a ton of activities going on, Chad did great, as always, especially considering he was still recovering from an injury. He dropped a 45 lb. weight on his toe a couple weeks before we left. I had a front row seat and got some good videos. I will try and download them later.

Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex

After he was done competing we headed over to Old Alexandria for dinner and a trolley ride. We took the King Street Trolley down town to this amazing Italian restaurant called Bertuccis. It was sooooo good. Since I was getting a little tired from our day we hopped back on the Trolley to see the rest of down town, it was so pretty at night all lit up. The ride ended back at the metro and we headed back to Crystal City.
King Street Trolley in Old Alexandria

Yummy Italian food!!!

It was so fun to walk around downtown and look at all the cute shops, it was all lit up and just a beautiful night to walk around together.

When we got back to the Hyatt we were both pretty tired so we had a nice dessert in our Hotel at the Lobbibar and headed back up to our room for the night.

The next morning we slept in and packed to get ready to head home. It was such a fun weekend and fun to spend time together. We couldn't wait to get back to the kids though :)