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| ....here - the International Spy Museum. But there wasn't photography allowed. It was really cool though, the history of spying. Of course there was a lot about the Cold War, WW1 and WW2, but there was also about the Civil War. You wouldn't think about spies in the Civil War, but there were! |
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| Then we were here - the Archives. And no photography there either. :P Seeing the Declaration and Constitution was really neat! |
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| Then we went to the American History Smithonian Museum. I took quite a few pictures, but the only ones of interest are this sewing machine from 1917.... |
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| ....and Braden and I by the Ruby Red Slippers! The ones I got of the original Kermit the Frog puppet didn't turn out that well. |
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| Back at the conference.. hanging out at the table - Charlotte Dirkes! |
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| Dusty Hinz attacking Molly.... |
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| ....with kisses. Molly was in heaven if you can't tell. :) |
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| Molly and Sonya Hinz |
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| Zoya B |
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| Back at the hotel room, saying goodbye to Lococo's - Lilya was glad someone was finally willing to help her flip! |
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| Elizabeth and Dax |
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| Caleb and Lilya |
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| Ruby wanted to do flips too, so she got Mrs. Lococo to do it with her. :) |
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| Mr. Lococo and Julia, who is from Ukraine. :) |
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| Ruby's reaction when Caleb told her that they had to say goodbye because he was going to go back to his house, and she was going to go back to hers. :( |
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| All was soon right in her world again... She loves Caleb and Josh! |
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| And Elizabeth too! |
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| Early Sunday Morning - Me, Molly, and Elizabeth right before Molly left |
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| Saying one last goodbye to Lococo's |
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| Lilya and I, Caleb and Ru, Braden, Elizabeth, and Josh |
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| Back down at the table again - Dusty and Sonya |
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| Andrea and Michelle - The 2 main leaders of Reece's Rainbow |
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| Right before our flight left Daxy had several diaper explosions (he would not stop!) and he ran out of outfits.... so we resorted to Ruby's spare outfit... going from 3 mo to 4T was quite a jump in sizes! It doesn't look to bad here, but trust me, it was pretty huge! ;) |
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| The flight was uneventful, and this was looking out the window to the parking garage on the way back to the van. I took this one for Rachel, because it says 'Yellow 3G'. Lilly is in region "3G", and her color is yellow. It was perfect! |
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| Lilly - she still needs a family!!! :( |
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| And I finished my trip with a photoshoot of Dax in the van on the way home.... |
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| Blurry, but adorable! |
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| Love this beautiful baby! |
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| He crashed... still just as beautiful when he's asleep! |
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| Zoya and Mila B - We met them getting off the elevator and of course had to stop and say hi. :) |
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| After walking around the day before, we did a "open top" bus tour on Thursday Brian with Ruby and Lilya, and Braden in front |
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| I stood up to take a picture and the speaker comes on and says to remain seated at all times... so here's Michelle signing "SIT" at me. ;) |
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| LOVE this picture! |
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| Michelle, Dax, and I - Daxy loved the Ergo! |
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| Love this girl! She's so photogenic! |
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| We got a tour of all the embassies - I definitely appreciate them all more now that I know what they're for and we had to use the American one in Ukraine. :) We didn't see the Ukrainian one though... |
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| We did see this awesome Ukrainian colors/Ds Awareness colors house though! |
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| I thought this building was pretty awesome too... it's only as wide as that end, but it probably is a triangular shape. If I remember right, this was in Georgetown. |
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| On the bus we rode... this was when we switched buses. |
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| We saw a sign for "Wisconsin Style Barber" or something like that and we wondering why we, being from Wisconsin, didn't know we had our own hair style! It made a little more sense when we saw what road we were on. :) |
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| Abraham Lincoln Memorial |
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| Braden's squinty face.. :) |
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| Better view from the bus than yesterday! |
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| I am absolutely in love with this picture! So mad at myself for not entering a architectural entry for Photography at the Country Fair this year! |
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| Ford's Theater, where William Booth shot Lincoln |
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| On the subway on the way back to the hotel... |
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| LOL She was soo done with pictures.. love her sassy spunk! |
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| It was HOT, so we headed to the pool, along with everyone else. I got to swim with Bellie Bug (absolutely adore her!!), so of course I didn't take any pictures besides this one of Summer and Bellie. |
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| Caleb and Reece (of Reece's Rainbow!) reuniting! |
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| At dinner! Lilya and I |
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| Braden and Owen Roberts, Reece's brother |
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| Charlotte and Kelly Dirkes! |
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| Elizabeth Lococo and Sonya Hinz! |
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| Bellie and I! - I got lucky enough to be the one to hold her and feed her the whole time... boy, does she love her mashed potatoes, and boy, do I love her!! ♥ |
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| Back at the hotel - Michelle and her friend Chrystal with |
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| Caleb in his toga/poncho!! hehe |
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| After swimming, we all went back to one of Lococo's room's to chat/hang out, and after awhile it was just Elizabeth, Caleb, Josh, me, and Nick (Bellie's Big Brother) left... and this would be Nick with his cheese nips. Glowing cheese nips.. I forget what they were called. Ahem. There might be a reason I cropped the clock out of this picture. :P |
