Sunday, Funday

Thank you to Steve and his amazing daughter Eliza for lunch and an afternoon around DC on Sunday. We have met so many wonderful people also bravely facing NF and we've come to call each other NF family. The temps dipped lower than Saturday, but a nice day nonetheless. We all enjoyed a great lunch at a local restaurant in Bethesda where T thoroughly enjoyed his mac & cheese, he claimed it was some of the best he's ever had. More US history and historical landmarks to see.

We stopped first at the American History Museum, lots of great historical pieces to find there including the ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz", original Kermit muppet, Ben Franklin's cane, Apollo Ohno's speed skates from the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, and so much more. Travis' liked seeing the flag that was flying when Francis Scott Key penned the words to the "Star-Spangled Banner", he went through that exhibit twice (photos were not allowed). The LEGO American flag was also pretty cool.

We then traveled to the Lincoln Memorial and showed T the biggest chair he would ever see. Off to the Vietnam War Memorial and you get chills walking past all the names of our fellow Americans. I had a MIA/POW bracelet years ago and looked up the name "Donald E Westbrook" on the wall. While I don't know his family, it is a name that stays with me. We also viewed famous buildings as we traveled into and out of DC: the Kenndey Center, Watergate, Jefferson Memorial, World War II Memorial, Korean War Memorial, and more.

We returned to the Children's Inn just in time to see the start of the final NASCAR race of the season. Travis cheered on his favorite driver, Kyle Busch, throughout the entire race. You could see the excitement building in T as Kyle took the lead toward the end of the race and won the race and the Sprint Cup Championship!! Next week will be a blast!

Sunday, November 22nd

Pictures starting clockwise from the top left...ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz"; Travis, Eliza and Steve at the Lincoln Memorial; Lincoln Memorial; Travis and Kermit; Travis watching Kyle Busch's lead the final lap during the final NASCAR race of the 2015 season; Travis and Kelly at the Lincoln Memorial with a view of the Washington Monument in the background; Lincoln statue; Donald E Westbrook's name on the Vietnam War Memorial.