2000 Miles Home..... and Back

We had a great time. It was about 2000 miles both ways in four days and we survived the drive.
All started on Thursday with a rented car and drove almost all night to Maryland to see my parents. The drive was not that bad because we kept entertaining each other with thins like the alphabet game; which is just starting with the letter A and finding a word outside the car and calling it out. The ass kicker is getting to the letter X, unless you are near a hospital, it is very hard to find a word starting with the letter X.
We stopped to eat a lot and the girls behaved relatively well considering that we drove 14 hours.
Mom and Dad were very happy to see us and next morning we ate like kings.
I went to my Alma Mater and took tons of pictures and then we left for Washington DC to see my brother and his little baby.
My brother married a white Irish super catholic woman. She works for the Supreme Court and has an IQ of a super human. The baby has the goofiness of my brother and the intelligence of my Sister in Law.
The baby was passed from family member to family member and she slept like a happy baby. The problem starts when there is no noise in the house, the baby doesn’t like the silence and starts to cry. It was funny to see the inexperience father and mother trying to appease a crying infant.
Next day we went to the Washington DC Mall and the Smithsonian. First we went to was the Space museum. My 9 year old struck a conversation with an astronaut that will be flying in the shuttle on May 11th to repair, for the last time, the Hubble Space Telescope. For 45 minutes, my little girl, had this man in a conversation about space, homework and that ants like to walk on out back yard in a certain way.
After that we went walking to the Natural History museum and again took tons of pictures. We walked 8 hours all through our Capital. We went to the White House and took pictures; we later found that The President and his wife had walked out to have an evening stroll just a few hours after we were there.
We went to a Salvadorian restaurant to eat with the whole family and went to bed.
The baptism was great, I was the Godfather and the baby slept the whole time, even after the Catholic water boarding ritual, she just open her eyes, saw the people around her and went back to sleep.
Right after that we had to leave and we drove 14 hours to Columbus, GA without killing two teenagers and a 9 year old that wants to know everything.

Yeap. That was 2000 miles of driving and eating and enduring the family trips.

Next year we are taking all of them, to El Salvador again.