(By Josh)
Hello my name is Josh and I'm doing this blog for no reason at all
. I don't have any idea but that doesn't matter because this is an important thing to my mom and I will do it for her.
OK - today we are starting with the fact that I went to Washington DC and it was really cool. My favorite part of the DC trip was when I went to the Spy Museum and we went sneaky sneaky with my bro 007. We took out some secret evil villains, we did some super awesome super super duper spy training program thingy and I was code named Billy Henderson.
Now we're on to the monuments: my favorite monument was obviously the FDR Memorial. We learned some super duper amazing awesome incredible American facts about Franklin Delano Roosevelt! One of his most famous quotes was "I have seen war, I hate war." I liked the memorial because it had some super cool awesome waterfalls and it also had his dog and his wife.
Not going to D.C. with my friends probably was the worst part but I still had a great time with my mom and my cousins and my aunt and my uncle
.
I Snapchatted with my friends when I was in the National Art Gallery, and also while my mom was driving all over Alexandria and getting lost in Old Town.
One thing I learned on my trip to Washington DC is that you can never trust mom with driving.
And I just want to go and read right now.
The end.
Closing note from Jenny:
What were you like in 7th grade? Stop and think about it. When you were 13 did you really want to hang out with one of your parents for a week and tour museums and monuments? And then journal about it? Did you care about George Washington's icebox? I'm guessing not.
This wasn't the friend-filled DC trip that Josh had been looking forward to, and in some ways it was a pretty poor substitute. But we did have some fun and we did make some memories. And there was trampolining and ice cream and Nick Cage movies. (Wait, maybe this was a 13-year-olds dream trip!?)
I'm thankful to Mike for encouraging us to go and making it happen, and I'm thankful for the family that took us in, and I'm thankful for Luke keeping his dad company on the home front, and I'm thankful for every blog follower and comment-writer and all the encouragement from friends and family near and far.
Most of all I'm thankful for the 13 year old who still puts up with me. You, my son, are heaven on a stick, but not on a stick. And when you think of this trip in the future, remember this quote: "You must do the things you think you cannot do." The woman who said that knew what she was talking about, and has her own statue in D.C....
But you knew that already.
D.C. Conclusion: It is better to light a candle...
Sunday, April 30, 2017
Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States
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