Last day in DC

Today was our last day of travel as we fly out in the morning. We got up and packed and headed out. Our first goal was to find the White House and then find parking close to the South East gate since that is where we enter for the tour. It took a bit but we finally found parking under the Ronald Reagan building a few blocks from the White house. Unfortunately we could not take our camera so there are no pictures of this part. We found our way to the White House and it was very interesting. It is a short self guided tour of the East wing. We were there a few hours after President Bush gave his speech today so they were still removing equipment from the grounds. We were able to see the long hallway on the bottom level with pictures of various presidents. We then went up one level and saw the hallway the President walks down to for press conferences. Then there was the Green room, blue and gold room, red room, and the Dining Hall. It was quite amazing seeing the elaborate and expensive antiques and multiple paintings in each room.

After we finished the tour we found our way back to our car and headed up to see the DC temple. This is Jenn's favorite temple, it is just gorgeous and the drive into the temple is amazing as well. The temple sort of appears out of nowhere, almost floating up from the ground. Here are a few pictures....

More fall colors and that is the car that we spent the week in I think I'm in love. We drove close to 800 miles and only used about 16 gallons of gas. So around 50 mpg :)

We then headed back to NYC to check in and get a good nights rest before we flew out. We were amazed at the gas prices, the lowest one being 2.77/gallon. We also so at least 1000 geese as we drove up highway 1. They were everywhere throughout Princeton. I currently am not a fan of Mapquest.... it took us on this crazy slow out of the way ride from the Verrazano bridge to our hotel. A simple 9 mile drive took us over an hour!!! I liked seeing Brooklyn but not for this long.

Anyways it's been a great trip and Mom has been very patient with me. I have no patience in the morning for questions I just want to get up and get going. This probably comes from being single so long. We again had perfect weather we even saw 85 degrees today! There is a storm coming in though, luckily it will hit after we have arrived back home.