National Zoo, Washinton D.C.

We flew in for the day to Washington D.C. It was a great choice for a day trip. Very inexpensive and lots of fun. That's the whole idea for us. :) I do tend to take all week to get one post up for some reason, but hey, at least I am getting around to it. lol. We went to the zoo, ate at a Mexican restaurant, then went home. Simple day with lots of fun. Kristen on the platform at the train station leaving the airport.

Billy and Karen on the down escalator going to change trains, on our way to the zoo.

At the zoo now, obviously. I thought this would make a great picture of the kids. :)

Got a good picture of the panda.

Baby hippo. It looks like a big, slimy.... well, you know. lol.

This is a scull of a hippo. They get some huge heads when full grown.

My 3 crazy kids.

A baby elephant. Awe, I love elephants. :)

My cuties

The girls got animals like build a bears. Like they don't have enough animals.

My kiddos again

See the spouting elephant in the background? You have to look kinda hard to see it, don't ya?

The Mexican restaurant were we ate. It had the best salsa, and the food was great too. Of course, I love Mexican food anyway.

Kristen next to the little Mexican dude. :)

Time to go home and they are all still in good moods. It was a good day. :)
If you are interested in seeing all of the pictures, you can go to my shutterfly account.

New Orleans

I've taken all week to get around to this. We did go to New Orleans last weekend and had a great time. We toured St. Louis #3 cemetery, Besthoff Sculpture Garden, Jackson Square, the French Quarter, and Riverwalk.

Billy at the entrance to the St. Louis Cemetery #3.

It was actually very pretty for a cemetery. Lots of crosses and angels everywhere too.

The entrance to the sculpture garden.

Billy being silly. lol. He's pretending to as for directions. So silly. :)

This was my favorite sculpture. It was a huge spider.

This is the entrance to Riverwalk. It's a shopping mall right on the water. I thought it was neat.

This is the statue of Andrew Jackson in the middle of Jackson Square.

St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square

This was one of the first churches built in Louisiana. It's well over 200 yrs. old.

Ok, so I obviously started this several days ago. All I had left to do was put a little text under each picture and it would have been ready. I am so bad at putting things off. But hey, I've been busy. I do have all of my pictures posted on my Shutterfly account, so if you want to see them, just click on the link to the right.

Now I think I will get started on my post from this past weekend, as this is actually from the weekend before, May 20-31.