Steven! Italy!

Steven has uploaded photos to Steven and Karley's Picasa web albums! He's got photos of his super quick and unexpected layover in D.C. and of where he and Karley will be living (Karley will be joining him in Italy when she graduates next year).

Here's a DC pic and link to the DC album:

And here's the front of their house in Italy. And a link to more photos of it.

As you can see there is tons of extra room to accommodate visitors! Karley says they are in need of extra beds and bedroom furniture to furnish all of the extra rooms. So if you have a mattress you want to get rid of or get bored one day and find listings for free bedroom furnishings on Craigslist, get it. We'll see if we can find a way to get the bedroom furnishings down to Karley before they need to pack up their household goods for shipment to Italy.

We miss you Steven!

DC!

Adventures in DC Day 1: So... Hunter, Collin and Debbie joined up with Ranee at BWI airport Saturday evening. The flights from Seattle and Boise were long but HEY, we can't complain, we partook in the miracle of HUMAN FLIGHT! We took a bus from the airport to the Amtrak station and waited for a little less than an hour for our train which then took us to New Carrollton. Our hotel's shuttle service picked us up and we got settled into our room. We called it a night and got a good night's sleep. Hunter said he slept like a baby, a non-screaming one. Collin fell off the bed and didn't remember in the morning. Debbie heard the fall and made sure he was ok. Ranee had to get Collin to sleep on his side of the bed and NOT diagonally across the bed!

Soaking wet in DC Day 2: We slept in ENTIRELY too late, waking up sometime after 8:30 a.m. After figuring out what we wanted to do today we headed to the Metro Station to catch the orange line to the Smithsonian stop. Thus began our first day at The Mall.

We went to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History...

We saw the Washington Monument...

We saw the World War II Memorial...

and found a friend of Styx. We saw the Lincoln Memorial and have some slight discrepencies in steps from the reflecting pool to Lincoln (Hunter: 85, Collin: 86, Ranee: 88, Debbie: 89, National Park Service: 98). Someone is wrong, and we think one of them is the National Park Service. We did all of this in either the pouring rain or the sprinkling rain. It was fun and SUPER WET.