DC family vacation 2012 - Day 4

This was Shannon and BJ’s last day in DC (their flight left later that night), but Mom and Dad had another day to play with us. We visited the National Archives first thing in the morning (after our usual breakfast sandwiches at Potbelly!). It was quite busy at the Archives, but we managed to get in to see the documents pretty quickly -- you are not allowed to take ANY pictures at all now in the Archives (non-flash photos used to be allowed) so I don’t have any photos from there. The gift shop was pretty fun!

From the National Archives, we wandered over to the American History Museum. This is a pretty easy-to-digest museum, but most of the exhibits and artifacts we wanted to see were off-exhibit or under refurbishment (i.e. Julia Child’s kitchen, Kermit, ruby slippers). We did see the first lady gowns, Old Glory, transportation, and energy exhibits and we were finished by lunch. After our American History Museum visit, we walked over to Penn Quarter for a nice relaxing lunch at Teaism where we ate our bento boxes on the bottom floor near the Koi pond.

We made our way back to the apartment to relax and eat icebox cake before Shannon and BJ met their cab to the airport around 4pm. We had such a nice time having them stay with us (we will see them again soon -- in about a month -- in Washington).

For dinner that night, Carlos, Mom, Dad, and I walked a little way to Bistro Italiano -- a tiny neighborhood Italian restaurant that Carlos and I had heard good things about, but had never tried. We had a tasty, quiet dinner and it was really good -- we will definitely have to come back again. From dinner, Carlos and I walked Mom and Dad back to their hotel and planned what we would do tomorrow for their last full day in DC!