the zoo!!

In our trip planning we knew that Libby could only do so many adult museums before she was done.  so we tried to make sure that every other activity was geared towards her or that we spent 1 day doing fun Libby things.

one of those such activities was the ZOO!!!

not only was it free but we were staying about .70 miles away from the entrance.  

Now let me explain about Washington DC, DuPont circle.  it is on a "hill"  which seemed like a 20 degree angle.  now the zoo was really on a hill it was closer to 30 degree angle.  I would describe the zoo as being built on the side of a very large hill the entrance is at the top and all the kids stuff is at the bottom of the hill.

my uncle had suggested that we take the metro up past the zoo and walk "down" the hill to the zoo and then walk to the bottom on the zoo and work back up the hill to see everything.

as we walked into the zoo and down the never ending hill we really felt out of shape.  Libby kept telling us she felt fine but she rode in the stroller the entire time.  

We found this little park about 2 blocks from my uncles place the last 2 days.  We really wish we had found it a week and a half earlier! she spent almost 2 hours playing hard on the play ground.  She climbed the rock wall and then tried to do the monkey bars by herself.  she is growing up fast!! 

We went to the American History Museum and as we walked around we came face to face with a piece of Church history!!!! We couldn't believe it!!!  So we took a picture to prove it.  Funny thing is that marshals parent had been in there the day before and totally missed it. 

Marshall and I were excited to see Kermit since Libby didn't really know who he was!

Marshall wanted to create the WTC and had lots of fun playing in the kids section Libby played with slinky, potato head, and etch a sketch. 

We got to see the hope Diamond.  It was amazing!