National Zoo

We got up bright and early this morning to take a day trip to the National Zoo in Washington D.C.  We left our house around 8 and traveled to the metro station.  We met our friends the Bunch's and we all rode on the train.  It took forever!  We had figured out that the train ride should take about 45 minutes and it took an hour and a half!  Audrey, Mikayla and Calli did pretty well considering the length of the trip.  Once we got into D.C. we had to walk uphill about 3 blocks to finally get to the zoo.

We crossed the street and walked into the zoo.  I think it was Kristi who looked at her watch and realized it was already noon time and that answered the question that we all had been asking...Why are we so hungry?  We found a couple of benches and all broke out our picnic lunch.  Boy was it good!

After lunch we began our hike through the zoo.  We saw zebra's and a cheetah first.  Then we continued on to the elephants.  We stood and watched them for quite a while.  We saw lots of other animals too.  After being at the zoo for a couple of hours, we all were ready to head for home.

We boarded the metro again and headed home.  When we got to the station where we had to switch trains, there were tons of people to push past to get out.  Rob, Kristi and I got out with no problem.  Once the three of us were out we turned to see Matt and Martha stuck on the train.  They were trying to push past people but were not being successful.  Matt managed to get his foot in front of the door to hold it open until he and Martha could shove out.  It was a little scary for all of us!

We finally made it back to our cars and headed home.  We stopped at Cracker Barrel to eat but it was a 45 minute wait.  We just wanted to get moving so we tried The Fisherman's Inn.  I called ahead and we were told 30 minutes.  Once we got there and checked in, it was another 30 minutes.  Needless to say, we should have just waited it out at Cracker Barrel.  We finally got home after 10:00pm.  What a crazy fun day.