Beautiful day!

Driving down to DC I realized that I really missed my EZ Pass. The lines were not as long as they could have been for a Friday night but it could have added an additional hour to my drive. When I get home I'll have to look into switching the current pass to the car we are to buy. I suppose it says something that I am more dedicated to switching over my EZ Pass then I am replacing my car, I am really ready to replace my car now it just seems EZ Pass should be ready to move in to the new car ready to work.

Today we visited the new site of the Awakening. It was a neat location with limited parking, lucky for us it was empty at the time we arrived. Grandpa was a little stiff from the long ride so Dad and I walked over to a sculpture to take some photos. It was a neat abstract piece with lots of bright colors. As we were walking back we got some photo's of the harbor. I'll try to post some when dad sends them my way.

The Awakening was a short walk from the car where Grandma, Grandpa and Mom were waiting. We all walked over and I couldn't resist climbing all over the poor guy. Lucky he is made of metal. I was highly successful in climbing the foot, face and one of the hands. The knee/leg gave me lots of issues and I was not successful in the end. (the final arm would be great to dangle from but their is not a good way to climb it). Dad got lots of photo's of me climbing the statue, mom even got involved for a photo op. Then we went for a delicious lunch (Pat would be jealous as it was a seafood joint).

After lunch Dad and I took a look at Grandma's car as the dash lights were not working. We knew a fuse had blown so we consulted the owners manual. We checked the fuse and it was fine. My poor FIL gets a call whenever I run across a broken car in my life (the last time I didn't call I got screwed). While he gave some great advise regarding the fuse, once the fuse was ruled out it looked like the car would have to go to the dealer (BJ stopped over later and showed us the fuse we should have checked, apparently 2 fuses control that panel and we checked the wrong one).

Grandpa fell asleep just before dinner. We tried to wake him but he was so tired from all the walking and fun today we could not even wake him with an alarm! It was quite a sight with all of us yelling and shaking his good arm. Unfortunately had to eat with out him leaving him lots of notes as to where we were and of course coming up and trying to wake him once or twice. When we were finally successful he was still not up for dinner which was fine because were were pretty much done, though we could have given him something to go if he wanted to eat.

As you can see it was a great day here in DC!