Meeting some new old friends

A couple of weeks ago, we packed up the kids and headed down to DC to play in the Smithsonian and meet up with some friends of mine, who until then I'd only known online. Danielle and her family came down from PA, not too far away from Hershey while Suz and her daughter were up from FL visiting her husband who was attached to Hilary Clinton during the weeks leading up to the inauguration.

We had a great time and all the kids got along beautifully. Faith, Suz's daughter was in high demand. At 9 she fit in right between Teddy and Jackson and shared an intellectual curiosity with Teddy and a joyful goofiness with Jackson. And then there were Danielle's daughters who shared the whole 'girl' thing with her - it was absolutely wonderful how well all the kids meshed – it was almost like they too were old friends getting back together.

L-R Sabrina, Danielle, Teddy, Jackson, Camela, Layla, Suz, Faith

Our husbands were off to the side taking the pictures. I swear they were really there.

Teddy in the main lobby of the Natural History Museum.

We got to watch the feeding of a tarantula named Ramona. They are only fed once every 2 weeks, and let me tell you... it was worth it.


The boys in front of the capital. You can't see it too clearly, but as the picture was taken 5 days after Obama's inauguration, lots of the staging for it was still up around the capital.

This last thing is the video of Ramona the tarantula getting fed. As it happens only once every 2 weeks, consider yourselves lucky.