President's Day

 We started the day off with a driving tour of the city. The Peterson's were great tour guides!

Washington Monument

Capitol Building

The Supreme Court is under construction so they had this big picture in front of it!

Oaklie really enjoyed the tour.

So did Amaya. She played on my iPad.

Smithsonian Art Museum

Ford's Theatre where President Lincoln was assassinated. I didn't realize it was right in the heart of DC!

Right after we took this picture my camera died. Lovely.

The rest of these were taken with my foggy iPad. It usually takes really good pictures but it was so humid and cold that day it fogged up the lens. 

IN THIS TEMPLE

AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE

FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNION

THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

IS ENSHRINED FOREVER.

I love Abraham Lincoln!

It looks like I took a bunch of faux-1970s hipster pictures, huh? I'm thinking about opening my own business.

I'm so sad because this is such a cute picture!

Lincoln Memorial

Vietnam War Memorial. 

Every name represents a soldier killed in the Vietnam War.

We visited some of the Smithsonian Museum. Oaklie wanted to see a lion and Amaya wanted to see a hippo.

haha I love this picture because it reminds me of SISTERS.

Also, we got to see the Hope Diamond which was really cool! Turns out that old lady didn't throw it into the ocean in Titanic after all.

 

Oaklie's favorite part of the day was walking along the bushes that has dozens of little birds in them. "Budies! Teet-teet!" They always flew away right as she got close to them.

This is the lap desk that Thomas Jefferson used to write the Declaration of Independence on.

We all tried our hand at looking like the American president.

Thank you President and Sister Peterson for a great trip! I want to be just like Sister Peterson when I grow up :) They are turning in their mission papers soon and we are excited to find out where they are going!