Last Day of June

Sent the big boys off yesterday for a week at Boy Scout Camp, so little man and I have been relaxing around the house.  Yesterday he played while I scrapped and I finally got around to taking pictures of the little pile of layouts I have finished this month.

I have to admit, I really don't enjoy scrapping soccer photos.

Washington Monument

I got tickets to go up the Washington Monument now that the repairs are completed.  So our first adventure for this summer was to take a trip into DC and see the view.

We started out early because I got the earliest tickets and we wanted to get a free parking space and walk over.  So we got some bagels from Panera and sat on a bench and had breakfast.  The birds were greedy little beggars who wouldn't leave us alone while we ate.

The water at the tidal basin was really high.  Those geese are on the sidewalk.

That's the line forming to get walk up tickets.  Glad I paid the $8 convenience fee and had them mailed to me!

They wanted to know if they could touch the monument!!

View from inside the elevator before the doors closed!

How would you like to climb the ladder to get to the ladder to go to the peak to fix something?

After being up on the top floor (500 feet up), you walk downstairs to the mini museum and they have lots of information about the monument.

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