DC Day-Emancipation Day!

We arrive downtown to marching bands, a parade and best of all one day of no parking rules being enforced!  (If only the world were like this every day). Who knew that Lincoln's act of freeing the slaves in DC nine months before he freed the slaves everywhere is still an annual holiday in DC?  We take Charlie to see the dinosaurs and amazing Mammal exhibit at Natural History and we study up on the African animals!

Charlie finds a statue with a soldier that he begs to climb

 We meet Greg's cousin Bob and his wife Lorrie for dinner, they are our inspiration, we visited them in Paris many years ago and always wanted to live abroad with our kids!  (After seeing there kids speaking French and giving us a Paris tour) They gave all of us some good tips for our adventures and filled us in on their next adventure-a post in Haiti!