Nice afternoon here!

So daddy really wanted to play golf
and I really wanted to practice for my triathlon so we went our own way for a couple of hours but are now back at the "tranquility pool" (that means not a place for loud kids who like to splash everyone and cannonballs (Eric) 😉

But the real question is ...

"Ohhhhh where am I?"

Mom & Dad just being ... Well Mom & Dad

Bringing the bikes down for a ride (Boo & Jess you'd love riding down here!) 

And enjoying the 80's station without complaints from the back seat, ... And what about a little air band (lip syncing) to the B-52s ( no not the airplane the band)

Party on Wayne party on Garth

3 hours and counting...

Wegmans was out of black eyed peas! This is a travesty.  

But they had stuff to make ice cream sundaes.

And some kid bubbly is I can get anyone to try it.

December 31, 2014 the end of an era? Okay maybe just the end of this year

Heading to Chick-fil-A in our PJs even! Stay tuned for more Dietrichson antics!

Reagan barking at the chik fil a cow

Beautiful night at MC Museum

well there are SO many people here we had to park or on rt 1. can sorta hear the music and the kids are running through the grass having fun so we'll probably bug out a little before the end so it won't take an hour to get home.

A perfect day

...from hell. I mean our was really pretty laughable. So the day started out great...beautiful weather everyone was getting along wonderfully. Lisa and Luke ended up not coming with us what a blessing that turned out to be.

We started out by spending an hour and a half in traffic on 395. Then go to the zoo where there was zero parking in any lot anywhere. Nor was there parking on Connecticut Ave or Adams Morgan.  So I abandoned the zoo idea and decided we were close to the cathedral let's go show the kids how cool that building is. Great parking there by the time we got there everyone was starving so on exceptional day we sat in the garage under national cathedral and ate from our lunchbags. (Not five minutes earlier I had passed by a beautiful park on Rock Creek Parkway  we could have stopped right by the creek and had lunch but at the time I was on a quest to find parking for the zoo.) So we got to the front of the cathedral and discovered that in January they started charging to get in. So we decided to take a few pictures on the outside. It would have cost close to 50 bucks for us all to get in. 

So on to downtown DC we are heading for the capital to look for parking there. After sitting in a ton of traffic we decided to just go walk around the monuments and we found parking near Constitution Avenue. Mind you it took 2 laps around that block before we got into the spot big enough for the van. So I used my only four quarters for a parking meter which turned out was our of orde, a police officer kindly told us that we could not park there. So we wrapped around the block again and found another spot ...quarterless now this time I was able to pay online through some Mobile Pay by Phone app thing. Which took about 10 minutes to set up.

By this time jessica is crying in the back of the van some how she got it this was her fault and that we'd never come back to DC again.  honestly I was in a fine miss laughing about all of this so I'm not sure how she got that ideas.

So we're finally off walking towards Constitution Avenue and the monuments and the weather is just beautiful. Next thing I know Gabe says uh oh mom,  looks I look down at his flip flop is broken. He hobbles across Constitution Avenue and ends up walking in the grass around most of the monument a few minutes later the whole thing blows up and he is now one shoe only.  so we're walking around the World War Two memorial, boo is ducking under a chain gate to get to the side walk doesn't duck deep enough and his her forehead hard on the chain. Glasses off, she is looking glazed.. a few minutes later I am slipping the camera over myr head and my earring pops off...Never did find it. Then the rest of Gabes shoe blows up so he is now walking half barefoot looking for non hot pavement. Time to give up. Back to the van...to get blocked in by a bus driver stopping to get ice cream at a vendor. At least we got in the express lanes and missed the accident ,on 395.  We r at Dicks now. I'm almost afraid to go home I might find that it's blown up while we were out.

Back here again

Came back to play on the playground and see the movie, climb the ship steps.  There was a crew of older gentlemen walking around swapping stories. I'd love to follow them and listen to what they have to say.

We are discovering that some places just aren't as fun now that you're older.  

And the quote of the day: Jessica to Eric "oh calm down Eric you're starting to act like me."

Back here again

Came back to play on the playground and see the movie, climb the ship steps.  There was a crew of older gentlemen walking around swapping stories. I'd love to follow them and listen to what they have to say.

Water bottle fight!

Eric was trying to eat Susannahs cookies and jess would spray him with water so I grabbed one and sprayed jess and mom then mom said you are bringing down the thunder when I sprayed her  then she got a bottle and got my head and all my clothes even my underwear! And now I have a blanket around me the picture is me with a wet shirt love you and miss you :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Burke lake park

We'll it's been a long time since we'd been there and everyone seemed interested in going ...So we went and realized that we were the oldest kids there...guess it's been a while and they d really grown up since the last time. Tried to feed the geese but got reprimanded by the park rangers.  At least it's a nice weather and a nice place to picnic.

RAIN

So as I mentioned it just went crazy with rain last night and rained for a long time. Again it was raining harder at the pool than in Brittany.

So it seemed like a good night for a treat.

The chinchilla!

Learned a lot about these guys ...apparently pretty cool pets but they do take some more care. This guy was cute jumping all over the cage.