For those of you who don't know, Mike, Mason and I just returned from a week long vacation in Virginia visiting Mike's Grandma and Grandpa. The red-eye flight was a little fightning going into it, but Mason did surprisingly well. He only slept for about an hour and a half on the flight to Atlanta, but sure did charm the pants off of the flight attendents the rest of the time that he was awake. Mason and I spent a lot of time standing at the back of the plane so we would not disturb the rest of the plane that was sleeping. As soon as we caught our connecting flight in Atlanta to D.C. Mason passed right out, he slept the entire 2 hour flight (which also meant that I as able to sleep) and didn't wake up until after we had gotten our luggage. 5 hours of flying combined with a 2 hour layover is grueling for anyone... so given the circumstances Mason did great!
They live right outside of Washington D.C. so we were able to go into the District a few times and check out some of the sites! We visited the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Capitol Hill, White House, Washington Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial all in one day... we walked and walked and walked some more!
Mike has been dying to go to Six Flags ever since he saw a documentary on the Discovery Channel about how roller coasters are made, so lucky for him there was a Six Flags 35 minutes from where we were staying. We took the trip to Six Flags in Maryland and couldn't have had more fun. I was able to work my magic to get us in for 1/2 price, we walked on to every ride and had ridden all 8 of the major roller coasters in less than an hour and a half! After seeing the signs showing the wait time on the entrance of each of the coasters at "90 minutes from this point" we knew we were in luck! There were times I wanted to chicken out... especially on the Spiderman Rollercoaster, but I was brave and rode all of them like a champ! Good to know that I can still ride roller coasters without getting sick even after having a baby!(For those of you who are curious where Mason was while we were galavanting like little kids again, he was at home with his Grandma Cher!
Prior to all of the fun, we did spend 2 days gutting his grandparents attic and 3 dump trucks later you could actually walk though the attic and can now see everything that is up there!
Virginia is such a beautiful place, I can't wait to go again! Thanks much to Grandma and Grandpa for their hospitality!
