Back to the travelogue… though Thumper has now said his SECOND word as of Friday.  He said “please” (it came out “peese”) repeatedly as I handed him cookies.  Like all kids, he’ll say anything for a cookie. After we got back from our trip to Colonial Williamsburg, the Webmaster and I felt confident enough to […]

When the Major and I started talking about this trip, he asked if we wanted to go to Colonial Williamsburg.  I had been there 20 years ago, but because it was a school trip, all we got to do was the evening lantern tour and that was it.  And I barely remember it, it was […]

These were all from our day out with Ane. We had actually begun our day very early with her out on the National Mall, where we went to go see the major monuments and memorials.  In the course of a couple of hours, we visited the Washington Monument…

When we started planning our trip to DC, we asked Ane if there was anything that she really wanted to do while we were there. “Go to Ford’s Theatre,” said our Civil War history buff. So we checked ahead, reserved tickets, and took Ane to Ford’s Theatre.