D.C. Sites with John-Mark and Natalie for Labor Day

John-Mark and Natalie came to visit us for Labor Day weekend. So we took them to Eastern Market to look at the cool vendors and eat some GREAT pancakes and french toast. We waited almost an hour in line but it was worth it.


Then we headed over to one of our favorite places in all of D.C. - the Library of Congress.

Benson loves to walk all the stairs. We enjoy all of the ornate paintings and decorations inside. They also had Thomas Jefferson's personal library on display, which was fun to see and maybe a little inspiring for Tristan. (:

The first BYU game of the season was that night, so we were all dressed and ready to cheer.

Then we walked over to the Capitol grounds.

The Harbor

We love walking around the Harbor in Old Town Alexandria just a few miles from our house.


Benson's favorite part is certainly throwing rocks in the Potomac River.

Benson loved to look at the boats.

It was fun but we were consistently trying to stop Benson from jumping in the water.

You could see a few fish in the water and lots of ducks.

Benson wanted to touch everything!

It was such a beautiful day!

Benson loved this huge anchor he could climb all over.

Gettysburg

We had a great time at Gettysburg. Our great friends the Hatchs let us borrow their driving tour of Gettysburg. It was great to drive around the sites while listening to the tour and then get out and look around on our own.

Benson so proud that he walked up all of the steps by himself to get to the top of this tower.

He loved climbing on all the rocks.

John-Mark and Benson found their way up the "castle" first.

Benson and Mom found their way back down the "castle." Benson loved the echo in here. Although I doubt too many of the other visitors appreciated his yelling.

The Smithsonian

Benson loved the Air and Space Museum. He was constantly pointing out each new plane to us. He loved to "hold the plane." Which meant touch it.


The big city life does have a few disadvantages with high cost and traffic, but we love all the great things to do for free around here.

After the airplanes and space shuttles we headed over to the Natural History Museum and looked at all the animals.

Benson lovingly called all the animals by their character names from Madagascar.

After this we headed into the IMAX theater and watched "Night at the Museum 2." This was Benson first time in a theater and he was thrilled!

All moved in!

It's been a week since we moved from our apartment in Williamsburg to a townhouse in Alexandria, so we figured we should let everyone know that everything went great. We love our new place, and it is so nice to be closer in to the city than we were when we lived in Dumfries before law school. Our townhouse is actually larger than we thought it would be (it's always hard to tell when you look at a place with someone else's stuff in it), so we are really happy about that. Tristan is excited for Georgetown so far, although it may be hard for school to compete with having had the entire month of August to spend together as a family after Brussels... Brittany plans to steal every extra minute she can away before he gets sucked into the world of law again! Benson is doing well and seems to love his new bedroom and the opportunity to move out of his crib into a real bed. As for Baby Leavitt #2... We still don't know whether it's a boy or a girl, but we will this Friday.

Anyway, whether you live in the D.C. area or would like to come visit, we hope we will be able to see a lot of you soon!