Welcome to Miami.

Yesterday we made it to Miami. On the way down we stopped at a few different places. Daytona Beach, some gift shops, kennedy space center (didnt go in just drove by), olive garden, another beach (cant member the name rite now) and like a river on the way to the kennedy space center.

In the wild we saw: dolphins, sting rays, a shark, blow fish, and alligators. Down the road to the KSC we saw 20 alligators... it was crazy all the other things we saw were all on the same road. We also saw a Raccon attacking garbage cans by the beach. lol.

Then my mom called and we talked for a little while. Shortly after which we made it to our hotel in Miami.

Florida here we come!

Today... we met up with Candy, Travis, Shelly, Camie & Davey at Ryan's (a buffet) for breakfast. We were all pretty much sickened (except Davey of course) with the choices for breakfast (this was everyones first time to this restaurant for breakfast). After breakfast we all headed out to the okefenokee swamp in Waycross GA. We saw alligators, turtles, deer, a bear, an otter, and snakes. We saw a show about the swamp with a park ranger and got to touch the snakes (which we didnt touch) and a baby alligator (which we did touch). We then went on a train ride to the other side of the park and saw the goats and umm well... we just kinda wasted 20 minutes on a train ride, which was informative.
After the giftshop we parted ways and Adam and I were on our way toward Miami. As the sun was setting we stopped at a beach on the way south in St. Augustine FL. It was pretty and there was tons of shells all over the beach. We grabbed a few (yes Rachel, they're for you!) and snapped a few pics and got back on the road.
For dinner we stopped at an italian place called Amici. It was decent but it wasnt incredible.. and it wasnt Olive Garden. Their bread was pretty good.. they bring you fresh roasted garlic to put on it.. yum.
After dinner we got back on the road and went to our hotel in Palm Coast FL.

The devil went down to Gorgia!

Howdy Ya'll!

So yesterday we went from NC to SC to GA. We stayed the night in NC and also went to the beach. We stopped at 2 different beaches in NC. Sunset Beach and North Myrtle Beach. After the sun set we went to Bass Pro Shop to look at canoes and I found it... my country get-up to wear to see the Fam in Gorgia. Adam bought me the shirt for $25 and before that he had bought me a hat from the outlet malls. Last night we slept in Savanna GA and it was horrible. Today, we went to Blackshear and spent the day with Candy, Shelly, Davey, Camie, Travis and saw David a little bit. We made a trip to the swamp with everyone but David and well.. we were kind of late and the place was closed. We walked around a bit and didnt see one gator. So we plan to meet with them all tomorrow morning at 10:30 and go again. Tonight we are staying in Waycross GA in ANOTHER super 8 motel.. and its fabulous... (not the sarcasim).

GOODbye DC!

So today we left DC. I spent a little time in the building where Adam has been having his meetings (mainly because there wasnt much of a lobby at our hotel, we had to check out at 12 and his meeting lasted until 3). After the meeting was over we went back to the hotel, got the bags and jumped in the truck. We drove through Virginia and into North Carolina (where we currently are). We had dinner at IHOP and came back to the hotel.

dc... AGAIN

I didnt really do too much of anything today. Adam got the truck fixed and back and he also got lost. It cost about $90 to fix but I think it was worth it. Thats about it for today!

another day in dc

so today.. we found out that i forgot my cell phone in the hotel we stayed in the other night (1 hour away).. so we went to pick it up after taking a few pics in front white house (adam says its the capital building but i dont believe him) and the washington monument. After we got my phone we went out to dinner at Red Lobster and then were back on the road to go back to DC.

As we were just getting close Adam noticed something funny about the wheel he replaced before we left springfield. We stopped down by the Washington Monument to check it out and Adam discovered one of the break calabers (i donno if i spelled that right or not anywayz).. had lost one of the bolts and the other was missing.. trying to figure out what to do.. Adam finally called a tow truck to take us to a repair shop. Mind you, this was after numerous calls to AAA as well as an hour of debaiting with himself at 12AM in the middle of DC.

The truck driver seemed friendly enough but Adam said he screwed us over by taking us 15 miles away when he said it would only be 5... but somehow I still disagree because it only cost $20.. $4 per mile i donno thow anyway Adam tipped him $10 because he drove us back to our hotel at no extra charge. Tomorrow Adam gets to call the repair shop and find out how much they wanna screw us over... and I told him.. "you know if you had just got that wheel fixed at shaners (the company that changed our wheels) than we wouldn't have to deal with this.. but no.. u have to fix everything urself.." Honestly it woulda been cheaper to just have them fix it awhile ago.

Not my Washington of choice...

When I was rudely woken thismorning I found my wonderful husband had went to McDonalds to get my breakfast (doesnt get much better than that). After eating we checked out of our hotel and were on the road toward DC at about 11am. We got to DC at 12. After driving in circles for awhile we checked into our hotel (courtyard) where we are paying $32 a day to park.So after bringing our bags in we took our little tour. All I was really interested in seeing was the Smithsonian (us history and natural history).

We first went to the natural history museum. There we saw some interesting things including: dinosaur bones/fossils, sea creatures (including a giant squid), lots of really pretty rocks (including diamonds, rubys, emeralds, calasite, quartz, copper, etc etc) the most popular was the Hope Diamond (which I was a lot less impressed by than I thought I would be).

Then we went over to the US History Museum. Some of the more interesting things there were: Ab Lincoln's top hat, a part of the shirt that was blood stained from when he was shot at ford's theator, and one of his suits. There was also dorthy's ruby red slippers, kermit the frog, oscar the grouch, mahamad ali's boxing gloves, and yeah thats about all i was really interested in there.

After we were done there we moved on to the National Archives. There we saw some papers and whatnot.. Adam took a call from President Nixon (LOL!) and we saw the Declaration of Independence as well as the Constitution. Then we went to the gift shop where we purchased the declaration and constitution (the same one Nicoles Cage bought his copy from in National Treasure).

Then we decided our feet hurt and it was time to go take a break in the hotel were we plan to spend the rest of the night. We might go out for dinner across the street in a few hours. All and all I'd say Washington DC is definitely less impressive than my Washington. Oh yeah, one other thing.. they call themselves "washingtonians" and call this just washington... no wonder everyone asks if we're from washington dc.. it's cuz all the people that live here are idiots!