Busy, busy, busy...and vacation is almost over...

What a whirlwind of a vacation! It has been great; we have seen lots of "history".

Yes, Yes, I know it has been a few days since my last update. Hope these pics gets you caught up.

Enjoy!

Walking the Freedom Trail in Boston.



For some reason, I love this picture. Taken on the Freedom Trail.


For all my baseball fan friends, we took a tour of Fenway Park. It was a bit pricey, but we all loved it.


Sitting in the "Green Monster" seats. These tickets can only be purchased through a lottery system with the Red Sox. If you are one of the "lucky" ones to earn the right to purchase, you buy 4 of them at $160 each. I must say, they are great seats.


Plymouth Rock...yeah, "big deal"...it actually is kinda small.


Marilyn at Plimoth Plantation outside of Plymouth, MA. We also toured the Mayflower.


Cool looking flowers that look like a cabbage plant. We saw some of these also on the Freedom Trail in downtown Boston. Anyone know what they are???


We stay in Plymouth at the John Carver Inn. The pool had a Mayflower slide and a Plymouth Rock hot tub. I liked the hot tub. The kids LOVED the pool and slide.


Two years ago, my family and I walked over this bridge. Do you know which one it is? Hint: we were here on a missions trip through our church.

Yes, it is the Brooklyn Bridge. We decided to drive through NYC on my birthday. We drove through the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. It took us about 2 1/2 hours on a Sunday afternoon.

And we left through the Holland Tunnel. It took about 25 minutes to enter and drive through it. It was very busy.


We went to Hershey, PA on Monday. The kids did a little packaging of kisses at a mock assembly line.


In the gift shop. Marilyn now likes to try on hats, too.


Our next and final destination is Washington, DC. We went to Mt. Vernon, but didn't take the walking tour. This was taken at the Visitors Center.


The White House. We left our hotel at 6:00 AM to make it to our 7:15 lineup for our tour. Yes, parking is INSANE in DC. But we are too cheap to pay for the metro (subway) every day. The parking is not too expensive, once you get by all the traffic and find a parking deck that takes daily parking.


Washington Monument taken from the tower at the Old Post Office building.


Today, we had a personal escort to tour the US Capitol Building. This is Emily from our congressman's (Aaron Schock!!) office. She was great and was able to take us into the exclusive parts of the Capitol and House of Representatives.


Here we are in the Capitol.


We really had a great day here. It was action packed and we got to see Aaron vote on a bill from the House Gallery, too.


Our time is fleeting.....


Kendra