From Washington.

In our “pursuit of happiness” we’ve decided to leave the city that has been our home, and YSD’s only home, for the last decade plus.

In front of DC’s most iconic monument

When we decided we were leaving, we wrote up a bucket list, and tried to hit some of our favorite, or yet-unseen sights in our soon-to-be former hometown.

Something about “man plans, god laughs” rings true. But we did manage to hit up a few of the spots on our list. And now we have a hit list for the next time we visit.

Our DC bucket list

As you can see, we didn’t make much progress.

But what we did accomplish was one of my #1 requests: visiting the top of the Washington Monument. A few snapshots from the top:

We also visited the Lincoln Cottage, a misnomer for this 10,000 square foot mansion that Lincoln spent a few summers during the civil war. We couldn’t take photographs inside, but it was certainly worth a visit for this history buff.

And then baseball interceded.

YSD joined a baseball tournament on our last weekend in DC as family, so we didn’t get to spend that weekend gallivanting at museums and soaking in the best monuments. And while we were happy that by winning one of his two games on Day 1, he made it to Day 2 of the tournament; Game #3 was a “L” and we were able to go home by noon, avoiding a very hot and humid afternoon on the fields.

Instead of a trophy, the kids got baseball cards and popsicles. And they couldn’t have been happier.

We spent our second-last day in DC cycling by the monuments and taking in the Fourth of July fireworks on the White House lawn.