Birthday Weekend

Birthdays are a pretty big deal in my book - it's your day, your week, heck your month! :) At least, that is how I feel about my birthday. So I try to pass that birthday spirit to others! So in honor of Michaels birthday we took a trip to Washington D.C.! Nothing like the one waystreets, stressful traffic, and parallel parking to celebrate ones birthday. haha But in-between theturning on the wrong roads and taking 30 minutes to get back to wherewe started we had a wonderful time exploring D.C.Our first stop was on Friday night where we walked around the National Mall, ate a yummy Texas BBQ dinner, and watched the sun go down by the Jefferson Memorial. Here are some pretty pictures of our 1st day.

Saturday we enjoy a Starbucks breakfast... of course mine had to be gluten free so I had a Kind Bar and a venti iced coffee with skim milk while I watched Michael enjoy a beautiful blueberry muffin and a breakfast sandwich. Oh to eat gluten! On to the zoo - where we drove around for a good while trying to find parking. Nothing like a "free" (paid for with our tax dollars) zoo! We love zoos so we loved walking around looking at all the animals - I think I was a lioness in instead of a puppy... that is reasonable right?

After the zoo we ate at a Mediterranean place - DELICIOUS!! My top two places I want to go for my food experiences are Greece and Paris - what wonderful food those Europeans eat! I got a chicken kabob greek salad.

Finally our last stop was the National Mall again where we stopped in the American History Museum. IF you have never gone there...GO! It's amazing, enlightening, heart-breaking(the war museum is extremely interesting but heart wrenching) , interesting, and just plain fun! We actually stopped in the gift shop this time...thankfully we were not bamboozled in buying anything but we had a great time playing with all the pop-up books!

(We were lost quite a bit...darn one way streets!)

On our way back home we stopped at Moo-Thu. You MUST go here if you are on 29 near D.C. It's homemade ice-cream from the dairy farms around the shop. AMAZING ice cream - I had banana and cinnamon and Michael had cinnamon and butter pecan. I love ice cream and this was a great find!

Find out more here: Moo Thru