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TRAIN TRIP TO WASHINGTON D.C. IN MARCH 1997
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meanwhile, decorate the porch for Easter
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unpacking for the night.
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next morning, Departure Day!
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we're off to the train station
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new suitcases say ''Going to Grandma's.''.
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boarding the Crescent, bound north for Washington, D.C.
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getting settled in for the night in our sleeping cars.
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she seems pleased
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Wake up & have breakfast in the dining car. Today we arrive in D.C.
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stopping in the little towns.
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and riding through Virginia
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Steve brought train games
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arrived D.C., went straight to Smithsonian Natural History Museum
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this place has a lot of stuff
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Emma slept while Sarah and Rena went to see the Hope Diamond.
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then outside--first look at the Mall.
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carousel on the Mall
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after this, the Air & Space Museum, and then the Einstein Planetorium where Sarah & I saw the show and Emma & Steve slept soundly