Washington D.C.

A couple of weekends ago we took a little adventure to our nations capital. Our stake had a temple trip planned for Saturday so we were excited to attend. Daniel ended up finishing his first half of the semester and after a week of finals and midterms we realized he really did not have any homework or school on Friday or over the weekend. We took advantage of the extra day and headed to D.C. on Friday morning. On Friday we planned to be in a city that had a Cafe Rio around lunchtime, we are definitely missing that treasure out West. After a great lunch we continued to D.C. we got there and had planned to go see some of the monuments at the national mall. After driving around for a while looking for parking and getting lost and having no idea how the streets work in the D.C. area we finally found a great parking place. We went to all of the monuments and had a great time learning and talking about our nations incredible history. My favorite was the Lincoln Memorial, it is just so classic.
On Saturday we got to do a session in the D.C. temple with members of our stake. I was able to meet such a nice lady and talk to her before the session started. When we were leaving the temple we kept running into her at various places in the temple which was funny. When we got out of the temple we wanted a picture by the temple but we couldn't quite get it on our own. She was right behind us asking if we wanted a picture. We gave her our phone but she wasn't quite sure how to use it. A few seconds later she asked us to check because she didn't think it was taking pictures. We looked at our phone and there were 14 pictures. She just couldn't tell that the phone was taking a picture every time she tapped the button on the screen so she just kept hitting it. It was pretty funny.
It was such a nice little get away. It was a beautiful drive, fall was in the air, the government reopened just in time, and the temple was peaceful. Oh and I got to spend all weekend with Daniel, it doesn't get better than that!