Feb 12, 2022

Nerdcation, Part 2

For day two of our Nerdcation, we decided to top Washington, DC, with the home of the man himself.  That's right, we visited George Washington's Mount Vernon!   The girls found their favorite musical star in stained glass...
A view of the Potomac from George Washington's porch...
It was a beautiful day at Mount Vernon...




Did I mention our friends met us there?  My college roommate and lifetime bestie lives in Virginia with her hubby and kiddos, so they all came over to spend the day exploring with us...


And your eyes do not deceive you.  That is the giddy excitement that Pourciau children only get from a destination that features our all time favorite: AN AUDIO TOUR!  Good times! 
I think these are a little out of order, but after exploring all day we grabbed dinner together and had a great visit at the Brownstein's beautiful home.  The baby sisters had a blast together...
And these two bibliophiles bonded over their shared love and hatred of tween book characters...

Our whole crew...
This scripture is inscribed in George Washington's tomb.  What a beautiful reminder that our country was founded on Christian principles by Godly men...
To highlight just how well the American experiment is going, this is as close as Joe Biden will let you get to the White House...
It started snowing on our last day in DC.  Corinne was absolutely thrilled...



Look closely for the snowflake on her forehead...
The Capitol...




Of course lawyer's kids have to take a photo in front of the Supreme Court! 


We had just enough time to hit up a few more museums before our flight...



I've never seen someone so ecstatic about precipitation...





We had a wonderful time masquerading as a family of four, but missed Stella and Watts.  Hopefully they'll be able to join us for our next adventure!  
 

Feb 11, 2022

Nerdcation

Dad had to take a little trip to DC, so we decided to tag along and make this a legitimate NERDCATION! Whoohoo! 
The non-nerds in our family (Watts and Stella) stayed behind to do cool people things, like dance and baseball.  That left the rest of us free to let our freak flags fly! We ate lunch at George Washington University in their student center just because it was convenient...
Then we set out to see all we could see! 

We hit tons of museums.  Here is Cille with the skeleton of a seal...
And Corinne with a llama skeleton for Stella...

We saw the Hope Diamond...
Not sure why we took this...
Made some friends...
Found another seal...

Found out what we would look like as cavemen, or cavewomen, I should say...
Politely refused some refreshments...


Discovered that Corinne's ocean animal is a...
...dolphin, and Cille's is an...
...orange roughy? 





As night fell we trekked to the monuments and memorials...
















We squeezed a ton into our trip!  More to come.