The highlights were the elephants, The panda. Oh my goodness she is adorable. And the gorillas. Claire took about a million pictures. We got to see one of the gorillas being fed, and it was almost eery how human he seemed.
I loved this picture of Jake because I could not get him to look at me for 1 second. That kid. After the zoo we were all starving and tired so naturally we made our way across the street for FroYo. We felt much better after that. We then headed to the mall and stopped into a couple of the Smithsonians.
As you can see, Claire was not excited about Dinosaurs but Jake was in heaven. Here they are in front of the triseratops! After the natural history museum we took them over to the US history. I wanted to show them THE flag. The Nauvoo sunstone and the ruby slippers. :) Pretty fun stuff.
We walked around the mall a little bit and then headed to meet up with my dad to make the commute home. I have totally forgotten just how awful the traffic is and it's gotten so much worse! I do not envy the hours my dad spends in traffic weekly. It's insane! It literally took Chris and I over 2hours from when we decided to head back to my folks house, to when we actually got there. And they only live about 30 miles away! I was pretty bummed that we didn't have time to get to the Lincoln memorial. I really wanted to take the kids, but there was just no way they were going to walk that far. Next time!
