Papa's visit-Day One

Papa got into town yesterday afternoon. We had dinner at a local Mexican restaurant, and I took Ethan to Vacation Bible School. We took the boys to school today, so we could have hard core tourist day. Today was water day at the boys school, so they didn't mind too much. We started the day off at Mt. Vernon. Thankfully, it was a gorgeous day. We had quite a wait to get into the house. If anyone knows my Dad, they know you never know what is going to pop out of his mouth. When you add Nate to the mix, who laughs at everything he says, he's ten times worse. We had a little old lady who advised the entire line to spit out their gum. I have to admit she talked about spitting your gum out entirely too much, but the boys cracked gum jokes for the rest of the day.
We walked down to the Potomac and up through the farm land. The last time we visited, we had to cut the trip short because of the boys. It was nice to see everything this time.
After three hours at Mt. Vernon, we left the Estate and decided to head to the Washington's Grist Mill and Distillery. This place was completely different from Mt. Vernon. There was NO ONE there. We had maybe 20 people in our group by the time we left. I don't think any of us expected this place to be as informative and interesting as it was. We left the tourist scene and headed to the Base for some groceries. Tonight we had an awesome meal, and took a walk down to the creek.

At the bottom of our place is a park with a creek and some trails. The best part of the night came when we decided to do a little off trail walking with Nate pushing the stroller through a field with flip flops on. Dad made a comment that it was going to be hard to beat today! I think we can do it! :)