Air and Space, Jefferson, FDR and MLK memorials

It's nap time, but we are across the street from the Smithsonian Air

 and Space Museum and with Oscar’s fascination with planes right now, we have to take a turn through it and I imagine it has good bathrooms with changing tables available.  

 Oscar is on cloud 9 from the second he looks up and sees so many planes above us.  He ends up looking like someone on meth running around wildly pointing at all the new things.  He can’t even spend time looking at something because something else catches his eye immediately.  He comes back to the original thing again, but just runs between things like he doesn’t know what to do.  It’s really adorable for about 30 minutes and then 

 I realize that I’m screwing up any chance of a nap.  He doesn’t resist when I tell him it’s time to get back in the stroller though and I think that a nap on the bus might happen, but we get the loudest bus ever.  For some reason, everyone is up top and the narrator has to yell into the microphone to be heard up there and you can’t turn the volume downstairs down.  So, this isn’t working out as a way to nap either, so we get off at the Jefferson Memorial 

 and get a call from John saying that they got into the Capitol early and will be out early.  John doesn’t feel good and the plan is to meet back at the hotel for rest.  But, now I’m no where near the Capitol.  So, Oscar and I started walking around the Tidal Basin with some cherry trees blooming and a nice day.  It was the first time that there was a feeling of, “not this is spring break”.  We were walking in a warm place, but not too warm, with beautiful surroundings and everything was 

 fragrant and soft.  It was a nice walk and Oscar got to run around the FDR Memorial which has lots of space for 

running around, with big granite blocks, statues that you can touch, and fun things to see.  We got to walk past the MLK memorial and got back to

 the Lincoln in time to catch our bus to Arlington, but John said that they were in “bonus time”.  So, by the time I heard back from him, we were catching the last shuttle out to Arlington and Arlington shuttles had already 

 stopped.  So, we’re hoofing it across the cemetery and back to the hotel.  DC might have been carved out of swamp, but Arlington is hilly.  So, by the time I got back to the hotel to 

 meet John, I couldn’t tell him if he had a fever or not because I was beet red myself.  After resting though, it became apparent that he is sick with at least a fever and I left him and 

 Oscar to take a nap while I went to Safeway for some provisions.  Not an eventful trip until I tried to checkout.  The lines were ridiculous and it seemed like everyone was there on a Monday night buying two things they needed for dinner that might.  I’m serious, the 3 people in front of me in line (after the 10 in front of them who I didn’t pay attention to) had respectively, two avocados and butter, filet of salmon, tomatoes and tortillas, and 5 

 packs of yogurt.  I can’t imagine spending 30 minutes in line to get two items everyday of my life.  Everyone in there looked  like this was usual too, so I was the only one wondering what the hell was going on and why I didn’t just go to CVS who most likely would have had the fruit chews that I went to Safeway to get in the first place.  But I was finally able to return to my boys who were still asleep, which means that Oscar won’t go 

to sleep at a decent hour tonight and John is really sick.  A white pizza from downstairs and it’s a night with me and Oscar taking a long, hot bath in order to relax away the germs and try to avoid daddy as much as possible.  Oscar knows that something is wrong and keeps offering daddy his doggie….