DC walk around

A week before Christmas, Grant had a half day at work (which pretty much never happens), so we seized the day and decided to go see a few things in DC. We met him at work and then took the metro into the district. Our first stop was We the Pizza for lunch. This has been on our list of places to eat since we found out we were coming here (thanks Finlaysons!) and it did not disappoint! We got aBBQ chicken, butternut squash, spinach artichoke and pepperoni slices.

Next stop was the Capitol Christmas tree. Grant saw this when he came to Bethesda for an endo course 4 years ago (and here we are finally in endo residency, yay!) and we thought it would be a fun December thing to do. The weather was PERFECT. Sunny and relatively warm. Couldn't have asked for a better day!

The kids' favorite part of the day might have been chasing and scaring the seagulls (a favorite beach activity). We saw a family later in the day and a woman said, "oh, those are the cute boys that were scaring the birds" haha.

 Rowan really wanted to go to a museum and he's been really excited about space recently, so decided to check out the air and space Smithsonian. It was great because it wasn't crowded, we walked through fairly quickly and just saw the rooms we wanted to see!

Then we took a good walk (Dylan slept in the ergo this entire time thus far) over to the Christmas market where several people were selling treats and art. We didn't get anything but it was fun to look around. Finally, we shared a peppermint shake at Shake Shack and then hopped on the metro back to get the car!

It was such a great day together as a family. Wish we had more time to explore with Grant (3 kids with only me in DC is a little intimidating) but we are making good use of the time we do have!