{ more fun than a barrel of monkeys } ::

Back in June, Tyson has a Statistics conference (sounds fun, huh?) in D.C. at Capitol One's headquarters - so we decided to tag along! While Tyson did his nifty statistics stuff during the day, Brody and i played. then in the evenings we got Tyson to ourselves for dinner and to play! it was a total win win for us all! Every night we ate ate at Cafe Rio! we were lucky and there was one minutes away from us! heaven i tell you, heaven! i was so happy i almost wanted to cry, but was way to busy eating to get that sappy!

   

on our first full day Brody and I slept in, ate breakfast in bed and played around our hotel suite. tyson joined us for lunch then he went back to work and brody and i headed into Georgetown to have some fun. it was a really hot day, so we spent sometime along the water front playing in the fountains. the water coming out felt like ice, which was nice because it was so warm but brody got cold pretty quickly. so after playing we walked over to Sprinkles cupcakes for a treat. it was nice to relax in the air conditioning and eating yummy cake! brody had his regular - vanilla cake with vanilla frosting with sprinkles and i tried the lemon cupcake. so good! after taking our time in Sprinkles we then headed back to the car but stopped off and walked through the canal paths. we got back to our room just in time to read some books and take a nap before tyson got back to our hotel room.

   

we had a blast enjoying our evenings with Tyson. we went swimming in the pool and relaxed watching some movies.

on our second day it was hot and rainy. a gross combination i tell ya! we headed down to the museums. we drove around for what felt like 100 hours trying to find a parking spot. those stink'in tour buses are everywhere right now and seriously take up every parking spot! just had to get there out there. anywhos...we finally found a great parking spot and we headed to the natural history museum. we checked out our favorite exhibits the dino bones, mammals, and oceans. and on TUESDAYS you can go see the butterfly exhibit for Free. so we hurried up stairs to get tickets and they had just given out the last bunch of them. SOB! So we sadly peeked through the windows and said hello to the butterflies. perhaps next time! after the natural history museum we made our way over to the air and space museum in the warm steamy rain. lovely. the air and space museum is pretty much a little boys dream come true. we love that place. after a couple of hours i realized our meter was about to run out so we both pretty much sprinted to the car, we made it just in time! you have to have your car moved by 4pm or you get towed. and cars were already being towed! we seriously got so lucky! we had some snacks and then brody fell right to sleep, so i just drove around until tyson was done with work!

on our last day we got a late checkout and brody and i took our time getting ready. we slept in, ate breakfast, danced around, played with cars and watched a movie, then finally decided to pack up and get things in the car. once we were all packed we headed over by the jefferson memorial and parked the car and started out trek. or should i say in brodys words...RUN! we ran. after a while cause it was hot, i would tell him to run so far ahead and then run back to me. it worked quite well until he was ready for me to pick him up. we made our way all the way over to the Lincoln memorial where we stopped for some popcorn and pop! after our little break, we ran some more. and then made our way along the water front. we played in the open park by some baseball fields, brody enjoyed himself while playing on a big mound of dirt with a few sticks and rocks. love it! and we watched helicopters fly really low over us. over and over again. it was pretty cool. we finally made our way back to the car and made our way to tyson. he was let out early in hopes to beat traffic (ha, yeah right!), we were smarter than that and we drove to cafe rio for one more yummy dinner. we are good now on cafe rio, pretty sure we wont be craving it for a while.

all and all it was a great few days, it was so much fun having little adventures away from home with brody! he's the best little sidekick and i love him to pieces. he is so great! And we were super happy we got to tag along with Tyson! we are super lucky to have such a great daddy who works so hard! we are pretty lucky too in the fact his work encourages their employees to have their families travel with them! so great! and perk they totally take care of us! double win! we kinda can't wait for the next travel trip!