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Where should I begin my post about our day in Washington D.C.?  We got there Tuesday night in record-breaking time, thanks to my “bat-out-of-hell” driving style.  Of course that was after torrential downpours, stops at drug stores and trips back to the house for forgotten items.  We stopped back by my house to pick up something and when I got back out to the car, Kaiden started throwing a fit that she wanted me to get her camera, after a small fight and her starting to cry, I ran back into the house again to get it.  Shelly said that the second I turned around, Kaiden stopped the fit smiled and looked at her and said “I’m not even really crying – works every time!” – Little Shit!  The kids fell asleep on the way, just to wake up and have a second wind once we hit the hotel.  Once we finally got settled in and got the kids settled for the evening, I was lucky enough to learn that Shelly likes to sleep in her underwear and ONLY her underwear, and she does not care who is around witnessing that fact about her.  Needless to say, Shelly and I are quite a bit closer than we were prior to this trip.

Chatty was supposed to meet us at the hotel, but because her car was having issues, we had to meet her at the zoo.  My dumb-ass did not bother printing out directions to the zoo, since I thought we were going to be following Chatty there – so of course we went the wrong way and were REALLY late meeting her there.  The zoo is gorgeous and huge, man is it huge.  Of course Kaiden had seen cotton candy on our way to find Chatty, so the first hour at the zoo was basically Kaiden pouting until we got back to that cotton candy.  You would have thought that we drove three hours just for cotton candy the way she was acting.  She cannot remember how to spell “charge” – but she can tell you how to get back to the other side of the zoo without a map to get to the cart that has the cotton candy. 

All the animals were out and it was a beautiful day, so they were all playful, which made it fun.  We got laughing pretty hard where the Komodo Dragon was, because there was an older woman there that apparently is the “all-knowing” when it comes to Komodo Dragons, so I made it a point to stand next to her at each area she went to and yell to Kaiden “Come here Kaiden look, an alligator” – to which she would snap “It’s NOT an alligator, it is a Komodo Dragon, and they can do way more damage to a human life than an alligator and they are very fast and blah blah blah” – It was hilarious! 

When we finally went and got some lunch, Shelly, Chatty and I sat at one table and our heathen children sat at another.  I am not quite sure how the conversation turned to cleaning up dog poop, but it did and Shelly was describing having to clean up some poop earlier in the week and how it made her puke in her own hands, when all of a sudden, Chatty started getting sick (like you could totally hear it) and basically threw up in her mouth and had to swallow it back down.  I screamed “OKAY ENOUGH” – to get Shelly to stop talking about the dog poop/throw up episode and to stop Chatty from totally puking all over the table, because if Chatty puked, I would puke and then Shelly would puke and the National Zoo would have thrown us out for hosting PukeFest 2007 on their grounds without a permit!

The rest of the day went pretty smooth and at any given time, you could have heard phrases coming from the three of us such as, “Damn that is a nice Beaver – Have you ever touched such a nice Beaver?” and “Kaiden, get down now, do you want your tootie to start bleeding?” – which was me telling her to get off some railing, since she had already racked herself like three times, but I am quite sure the people next to us at the sea lion exhibit did not know that and were wondering why I was talking to my five year old about her tootie bleeding.  All in all it was such a fun day and I am SO glad I got to meet and hang with Chatty; it basically just confirmed that I am as good a judge of character online as I am in person!

Because we are the best planners in the world, our zoo trip ended right at the exact time that all of Washington D.C. was getting off work – so as you can imagine, traffic was lovely.  We drove around for a bit to make sure the kids got to see the Washington Monument, Capitol Building and the White House, and then we got on the road to head home.  I got home by 11:00 last night, which was not too bad, but I am dragging a little ass today – but I am glad that I went.  Click below to see some photos and video footage from the day.

Today after work and after picking the kiddies up from school, I will be dropping Ashton off with Gammy and Pop-Pop and Kaiden and I will be heading over to pick up Shelly and Haley so that we can begin our drive to Washington D.C., which is about 3 hours from Virginia Beach.  We rented a hotel room to stay in tonight and then Chatty will be coming to the hotel to serve us hot breakfast in bed

meet up with us and go to the National Zoo.  Our hotel is about six miles from where she is staying at her sister’s house.  She told me in an email last night that the parking lot of the hotel is not big enough for her to turn around in case she has second thoughts once she sees us - and trust me, she WILL have second thoughts.  HA!

Kaiden is so excited to go and it has been such a good threatening tool this week to get her to behave, that I will be sad when the trip is over.  I will have to find something else to use.  Last night I walked into her room and she had like 30 movies stacked up on her bed.  I asked her what the hell she was doing and she said she was getting a moive collection together for her and Haley to watch on the way - apparently she thinks we are driving to California.  I got the Urban SUV all cleaned up at lunch, so that Shelly has absolutely NOTHING to complain about - she will have to actually sit in an automobile and be content, which is next to impossible for her, with that road rage problem she’s got going on!

I’ll make sure to take lots of photos!  Try not to miss me!