D.C. Day 2

Wednesday we got up early and went to my dad's office for a tour. He works at Northrup Grumman. He took us up to a conference room to meet Andy Delfavero. After a brief intro, they opened up the wall of the conference room to reveal the REAL office space/lab. Andy showed us some really cool technology and even let us test out some of the massive touch screen computers and programs. VERY COOL!



After that Dad took us out to the Udvar Hazy Air and Space Museum near Dulles Airport.

This is where they keep the planes and shuttle that are took large to fit into the Smithsonian museum downtown. We took a tour but ended up walking around the museum on our own. We also got to go into the air traffic control tower and listen to the scanners from Dulles as the planes were landing and taking off. It was really cloudy though so we didn’t see anything out the windows.

Then we took a trip up to Baltimore for dinner. On the way dad showed us the hospital where I was born and the house my family lived in at the time. The hospital is Bethesda Naval and it’s MASSIVE and we had to have military ID just to get on the grounds. That’s where the President goes for checkups. Pretty cool to see. In Baltimore we had some FABULOUS crab cakes! Then Dad drove us to a Metro station so we could head downtown to meet up with Matt, Gianna, Makai, Bridget, Jamie, Anthony and the boys. This was an adventure. This was our first trip on the metro since arriving and we had ALL of our suitcases and bags and crap. We got on a green train, then got off to get on a yellow. After waiting for like 30 minutes, some lady finally told us that the yellow wasn’t running. We’re lucky she told us, there were no maps or anything in the stations!! We FINALLY made it to Pentagon City with all of our bags, then met up with everyone at dinner. This is Gianna getting attacked by Carmine..

After dinner we decided to walk over to the Pentagon 9/11 memorial.

The memorial is beautiful, and a really peaceful place. There are benches shaped as airplane wings for all of the people killed in that crash. The wings are grouped by year of birth, going from the youngest victim to the oldest. From 3 years, to 71 years old.

After that we finally went to our hotel in Dupont Circle where 6 of us crammed into one hotel room with two full beds and an air mattress. Here's EVERYONE!