A long summer

This has been a very eventful 6 weeks so I will try to have a different blog for all of our adventures.... the first is to start in Washington DC. We moved from Charleston on July 10, packed up all of our stuff in a container on the side of our house and left with 6 suitcases and 3 carry-ons. We drove up to Washington DC with our friends the Kimes and we spent a day touring and visiting the sites and museums. My brother Blake was in town so he stopped in for a few minutes to have lunch with us. We had a great time. We stayed the night in a hotel and then drove back to Richmond to stay with my cousin, Matt and Erin Blake. We picked blackberries and blueberries and really enjoyed their company.

We headed back to DC to catch our flight from Dulles to SLC. As we were driving I checked our flights to see the exact time... and as I looked at it and it said we were flying out of Baltimore.... what!?!?!?!? I swear I booked them out of Dulles, not too bad because they are only 45 minutes away and we were 8 hours early. we had to return our rental car... which adds the complication, we got our rental car from Dulles but had to return it to Baltimore. I made some phone calls and for a few $$ more we returned our car to Baltimore, but it had to be before 11:00 am, which is when we rented it. the sad thing was that our flights didn't leave until 5 that night. we had 6 pieces of luggage and we weren't allowed to check it in until 4 hours before. What were we going to do with all of this luggage and 2 children in an airport (mind you we couldn't actually go past security because we had all of our luggage so we were confined to this side of security), luckily we found a subway to eat and we saw an observation deck. It was great. Several play things for the kids to run around with. Little kids also playing, the view of the tarmacs and planes. We put on a movie and the kids took a 2 hour nap so it turned out great. We arrived in SLC later that night and then began another adventure.