Hi! We're back! Mom just recently got a new laptop (the old one had some issues, and it died) so we had to go to the computer place and collect the external drive that has all of the stuff that was on the old laptop.
Back to the trip. We went through Pennsylvania and got to Maryland about 5:00PM. Geoff's doing an internship in southern MD at a Naval Base, about 2 hours away from Washington DC. His little suite was really nice, tiny little kitchen, REALLY comfortable bed, bedroom with a TV in it, sort of a living room with a TV in it, and-oh yeah, I have to mention the beach. There's this wonderful beach accessible to the base people (part of the Chesapeake Bay) and it's got jellyfish. Yes, jellyfish. We saw 2 of them and Geoff almost sat on one of them! Pretty narrow escape. We went there on our last day, Saturday.
Backing up to Friday, Geoff wanted to go to Washington DC, and Mom said yes, as long as he would be the one driving. Mom hates driving in busy places. We got there about 11:00 in the morning, found a parking spot at the Ronald Reagan building, and headed over to the White House. We didn't get to go inside, because we didn't have our passports on us and hadn't reserved a spot 6mos in advance. But we did get to see front and back of it. From there we went to the Washington Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Jefferson memorial. We also saw the Vietnam, WWII, and Korean war memorials. Last stop we made was at the National Archives to see the original documents (Constitution, Declaration and Bill of Rights). I really wanted to see the Capitol building and the Senate building, but we didn't have enough time. Hopefully we are going back in November.
On Saturday, we didn't do a whole lot, just went to the Naval Air museum, and then to the beach. Then Mom and I packed up and Geoff drove us over to the airport for our flight home.
Sniff.
Thankfully, Geoff is coming home THIS WEEKEND! So excited! Well, I'm supposed to go upstairs and help clean, so I now conclude the blog. Bye.
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