Washington DC

So Sunday we went to Washington DC and went to see the infamous firehouse.. for the hundredth time.. But the kids can't seem to get enough of it.. The inlaws also went, which added a different mix to the equation.
So first we went to the firehouse and saw the firehouse, it was the same. I think being married to a fireman really just makes fire trucks uninteresting.
From there it was the zoo, which we of course made a special trip to see the Monkeys, for Riley, our littlest monkey. He loved it.. the monkeys and elephants were his favorites. The kids enjoyed all of it, but were upset that there weren't very many animals out.
Then we hit up the Vietnam Vetrans Memorial Wall which I had never seen. It was amazing. It is truly hard to imagine everything that these people possibly went through. The kids were very unimpressed by the wall, except Olivia who I explained what all the names meant. I think that she actually thought about it, as much as a 6 year old can think about something that deep. The situation was somber and the kids respected that mood, I was very impressed with their behavior, for once.
From there is was off to the Washington Monument, which we couldn't go into because all the tickets were sold out. But the kids got to walk around it and see just how tall it really was. By then we were all beat and sunburnt so we took the metro back to the car and called it a day. The kids also love riding the metro. Next day trip to DC I am really looking forward to getting them to the Air & Space Museum.