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