Adventures in the DMV - Part 3

 Our last installment of our DC adventure involved visitors, White House perks, and some goodbyes

We had a lovely spring break with some of our California travel buddies.  The weather was perfect - until the last day when we all attended a very rainy White House Easter Egg Roll.

We went on more Metro expeditions, scenic bike rides, kayak excursions, and a ropes course!

Milan and Kirin ended 1st and 4th grade and said good-bye to their Arlington buddies

 

 We took visitors for tours of the White House

 

and the Eisenhower Executive Office building

 

 

The VP posed for a photo during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

 

and we got in a tour of the West Wing

Our last weekend in DC, we got to see fireworks from the South Lawn of the White House (which was thankfully much nicer weather than the ill-fated Easter Egg Roll)

 

 

and I got to meet the President after he disembarked from Marine One!

 

 We said good-bye to our DC area family

 

 before leaving Union Station for our East Coast transit adventure.

 We had such a wonderful and fulfilling year in DC!

Adventures in the DMV - Part 2

It has been a while since we last wrote about our year in the DC area!

We celebrated Thanksgiving with family members from far and wide for the first time in years

 

 

 One perk of living near family was getting to join my dad for dinner on his 75th birthday!

 

 

 

The White House temporarily opened for holiday tours

   

 

We made our way through the ice maze..

 

..and through several holiday light displays

 

And woke up to a stocked tree

 

Our Californian cousins brought some temperate December weather

 

A special treat was seeing John Oliver from the Presidential Box at the Kennedy Center!

 

And we spent New Year's Eve in an indoor skydiving experience

 

Early January went from mid-sixties..

 

...to several inches of snowfall and a week of snow days!

The rest of January brought emergency overseas travel, quarantines, illnesses, isolations, and more snow days, which thankfully lacked photo documentation.

When we finally emerged from that, we got back to exploring our temporary home

While on a quest to visit a far-flung metro station, Milan and mom had an unfortunate series of mishaps that resulted in a 2+ hour trip that should have taken 30 minutes, and took this photo to commemorate the journey

Better times on a day off of school scooting around the river

 

 

The cherry blossoms were short-lived but did not disappoint!

Milan went on a field trip with his class to Jamestown, after several months learning about Virginia history in school

 

Another sampling of photos during the winter and spring in DC!