We just had an amazing weekend in Washington, D.C. with two of our kids and three of our grandkids! We stayed for three nights at the Hilton Garden Inn on 14th St. which is quite near the White House. We did not try to crash any parties! We did get a small Christmas tree for the room and had lots of presents for the kiddies and, in general, just had a lot of fun.
Santa showed up on Sunday morning and you can see the response from Inge (almost 7) and Beck (soon to be 5). In the next picture all of Steve's family got in on the act. Emmas 15th birthday was the Sabbath we were there which made it nice. We went to Union Station which is one of our favorite haunts and got the whole clan together for a pic in front of the tree.
The Capitol building at night is always a great shot as you can see. Then we went to Arlington Cemetery on Monday to see some of the 15,000+ wreaths that had been laid there on Saturday. It was impressive. Obviously I also took some shots of the Washington Monument as well. After that we went to the Georgetown Mall, which is another favorite of ours just for the beauty, especially at Christmas.
We ended the trip with dinner at the Daily Grill in Tyson's II, near Vienna where we used to pastor. Julie and T were there along with his parents, Norm and Carol Wootton and a friend. A grand time was had by all and we are so blessed with our family connections.
