almost home!

i have no pictures for you tonight. i just wanted to reaffirm that i am alive and well, and that our trip has been highly successful in terms of famous sights seen (for justin and i), for research accomplished (for dad) and great times spent together (for all three of us, but particularly justin and i). i just want to let you know what we've seen in the last couple of days...

in the two days since i last posted, we have visited arlington national cemetery, the jefferson memorial, lincoln memorial, capitol, supreme court, senator hagel's office, the senate gallery to observe some debate, the library of congress and the national aquarium.

we did all that with a metro pass and a lot, i mean a LOT of walking. i am really sore from walking many miles each day and doing tons of standing in line and walking slowly and respectfully through all kinds of places. i have a lot of really great pictures of stuff, and hopefully you'll get to see some of them soon.

oh yeah. i got another "illegal" picture, this time of the gutenburg bible. yeah, i saw it and decided to take a nice picture of it, and i did, right before justin turned me around to the "NO PHOTOGRAPHY OF THIS EXHIBIT" sign about two feet away from me. i am really shocked that we weren't thrown out of the nation's capitol.

so today we are someplace in ohio spending the night, and tomorrow we drive home!! tonight we relaxed in a jacuzzi after eating a classy dinner at Bob's Big Boy Burgers. or something to that effect. anyways, it'll be nice to have an extra day before we turn around and get on our plane to Peru, on tuesday. i am so exhausted and everything from the waist down is sore. but it's also a good kind of bubbly, airy feeling that you get after sitting in a hot tub for an hour. :)