A Very Special Trip

My sister and I just returned from a trip to Washington D.C.  When Bubbe was diagnosed with lung cancer, she said to me, "There are two things I want to see before I go - you be a mom and Washington D.C."  Well, she got to see the former, albeit for a short time, but she never got to visit Washington D.C.  Ben had even planned a trip that was canceled due to her deteriorating health.  It was just sort of unspoken that my sister and I would one day take this trip for her.  We got a cute luxury apartment on VRBO and spent 5 days sightseeing, eating out, and lots of quality sister time.  We got to visit with our cousin, Sarah, and see the aquarium in Baltimore.  Here are some pictures from our trip.  Neither of us brought a real camera so these are just from our phones and are pretty random.  

  

We brought some her ashes in this little wooden box.  This sat on a bookcase in our living room growing up and I always loved it.  

Jessie even got Michelle Obama bangs!

One of the first things we did in D.C. was visit the National Museum of American History.  Mom would have LOVED this museum.   We started with the First Ladies exhibit, which was pretty cool.  The Star Spangled Banner was pretty incredible too.

Gelato = happiness.

We had dinner with some of Ben and Jessie's friends and went out for gelato after.  I love gelato.  One of the happiest moments in my life was eating gelato in Venice 15 years ago.

Meanwhile, Charlotte was at home making "a jingle belt."

One of the joys of traveling in these modern times is getting pictures and text messages from home.  Mike sent me lots of pictures of Charlotte being her adorable self.

We also visited the Hirschorn Museum and sculpture garden.  I loved this oversized stick of butter.

Mike and Charlotte went to Choo Choo Bobs

Waiting in line, it was cold.

We went to the Holocaust Museum first thing in the morning to wait in line to get tickets.  We got tickets for the afternoon.  Then we had lunch in the cafe at the American Indian Museum and then spent the day walking up and down the mall to see the memorials.  My mom would have loved the presidential memorials. We spent over 3 hours in the Holocaust Museum and we didn't even see all of it.  That's the thing about Washington D.C. it's impossible to see it all in one trip!  We'll just have to go again!  And our dad always wanted to go to Greece and never got to go, so one day we'll have to do that too.