Our trip! Part 1: Visiting friends in DC

We headed north (into the heat, weirdly) and spent some time with friends and then family. Thanks to Margaret and Tony and their little ones Samantha and Marcus for hosting us in DC. We had great fun at the Museum of Natural History where among other things we learned from the Titano-boa exhibit that global warming is likely to result in more giant snakes.

I was particularly impressed with the museum's collection of skeletons. Very cool. 

We left DC Sunday morning to head up to Pennsylvania. An hour into the trip, Ethan started to scream so Eric took the very next right turn to stop for a nursing break and it turned out to be a fire station. We were just in time for the regular equipment check which included seeing the mega-ladder extend up into the sky. A nice fireman took our photo once Ethan was done eating.