Tom and I went to DC for a little get away… we were only there for three days. On sunday we flew into Reagan National Airport, we met my cousin Erik and his wife Payal there. Then we started sight seeing.. we started out with the Smithsonian. We didn’t get to see all of the museums… but we did get to see the American History, Natural History and Air and Space museums. At the air and space museum, we saw a short movie called Fighter Pilot in the Imax theater. That was pretty cool, it made me a bit dizzy. It was my first time in an Imax.
From there we went to the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, WWII and Vietnam Memorials. That was enough sight seeing for the day, so went back to Erik and Payal’s for the night.
On Monday, Payal, Tom and I went to the Arlington Cemetery.. we went to the JFK gravesite and to the Tomb of Unknown Soldiers to see the changing of the guard. We had some trouble getting there, because we missed our exit. We were trying to find our way back when we saw a cop. We decided to stop for directions, which were very detailed.
After that we went to Tyson mall, so I could get a dress for Aaron’s wedding. Tom wasn’t too happy about that but it didn’t take too long. I ended up getting 2 dresses.. I couldn’t decided between the two. We went out for dinner that night and did some shoe shopping. 
I had to get shoes to go with the dress.
Tuesday morning Payal gave us a ride to our meeting place with Adam. Adam took us to the Baltimore Aquarium.. we saw a short 4d movie there. Our seats vibrated, we got poked in the back and sprayed with water. I jumped a lot.. it was fun! We also saw a dolphin show there.. it was okay. They did a lot of talking about polution .. I would have liked it better if there was more of the dolphins. After that we went to see the Star Trek movie, I thought it was good!
Finally it was time for dinner! Tom was waiting for this moment, because we were going to get all you can eat blue crabs. The first place we went to was gunnings, but they were all out of Crab! We decided to go some where else instead, but it wasn’t all you can eat. I tried eating a crab, but I just could eat something that was looking back at me. Tom started playing with his food, so we had to get it on camera. After eating, we went to the hotel for the night.
Wednesday morning we flew back home, with no problems! On our way to DC we were delayed out of Msp! (Tom was not happy. He hates Msp airport now) We had to swap aircraft, so we ended up being to hours late.
My sister got a job in Baltimore.. she flies there for two weeks and is home for a week. Well she is always home when I’m not there, so I “borrowed” Tom’s web cam. We started chatting through messenger. I’ve been playing around with the web cam.. here are some pics.
Just sitting at home watching the movie Old School. I was going through some pictures and decided to add a few more. I thought that I had more but it looks like I lost a few.
Here are some pictures of Sage our yellow lab. Shes a little spoiled but a good girl. I love my dog!
Tom and I went to Florida for his birthday. We had fun and got to do a lot of things. The first day we went to the beach and got beat red. The sun screen didn’t help too much. We also went to Orlando Airport to visit my cousin and his wife. They were on their way back from vacationing in Cancun (I think) and had a 3 hour layover. We met them there and had dinner at Chili’s in the airport. Oh I almost forgot that we went to Ripley’s Believe it or Not! in Orlando. There was some time to kill before going to the airport. We went on a Casino Cruise, which was fun, but we didn’t win anything. They had music, food and drinks for free. There was a Marilyn Monroe look alike.. she came over to sing to Tom and Uncle Jerry.
We also went to Daytona Beach and played putt putt golf. It was a good time.. I got a hole in one twice! That was the my first time playing putt putt golf. Then it was time to go home. When we returned the rental car, I forgot my purse in the car and I had to run down to get it. I was so worried that I wouldn’t get it back. Well thats all the exciting points of the trip.
Kristine was on leave for a few weeks this August. We had some fun times catching up! I miss her already, too bad she couldn’t stay. Sally, Kristine and I got together on Tuesday and made our own fun. We really didn’t do anything but drive around. For some reason we couldn’t stop laughing.. I haven’t laughed that much in a while. :) I miss you Kristine and stay safe!
Tom, Rob, Carly and I went to a Wings game last year. It was awesome and can’t wait to go to another one. I’m a Red Wings fan and Tom is a Blackhawk fan.
This year Carly and I made Halloween cut out cookies… normally thats a Christmas time thing. We frosted them with orange and black frosting. I didn’t take any pictures, because they went fast. I brought a lot of them to work. They didn’t last more than a day there.
We also carved pumpkins this year, except we did it a week and a half before Halloween. Last sunday I tossed them because they had got moldy and were squishy. I had to have pumpkin for Halloween, so I went out and got another. This one turned out better than the first try.
Carly and I got dressed up to pass out some candy. We had about 30 or so kids. There could have been more but we decided to go to Applebees for dinner at 8pm. I was dressed80 style (again I did it last year in MN) and Carly was a dark fairy. Maybe next year I’ll buy a costume.
Everything went smoothly for the wedding. It was a long day.. we were pretty tired at the end. Bonnie looked beautiful in her dress.. it suited her perfectly. The bridesmaid’s dresses were pretty… all loved them. The groom and groomsmen all look handsome in their tuxedos. After the wedding we went beeping.. it was the longest route I’ve ever been on. Before we went back to the church we stopped at Houghton Beach to take a few pictures.
We got back from camping at Mclains for 2 nights. It was so much fun… Rob and Carly came too. Oh and I can’t forget to mention Sage! This was the first time we took her camping. She did bark at a few people but otherwise she was a very good girl. The first night she was getting use to her surrounding, so she didn’t take little naps like she does at home…. that changed the next day.
We got there Sunday (july 8th) that evening it was really cold, but that was expected. We just made some dinner and played badminton and played with the frisbee. When the sun started to set we took a few pictures. Monday was a little bit warmer. Carly and I went tanning on the beach for a couple hours. I got a little bit of sun, but Carly got sun burned. Tom and Rob ran up to town for a bit while we napped in the tent. That night Carly and Rob made pork chops and potatoes for dinner. For dessert we had smores and strawberry shortcake. We went to bed early last night so we would miss the storm that was going to hit us at 9am this morning. We did get some rain but not too much. I can’t wait to go camping again. :}
