Nick's Trip - June 10-15

Here are a few pictures of my Washington D.C. trip that Steph got me for my B-day. I just want to say thanks and that I LOVE & APPRECIATE YOU VERY MUCH, words cannot express my feelings!!! It was an Awesome present.

The reason I went to D.C. is my older sister (Teri) graduated from the F.B.I. National Academy on June 12.

This is my first post on the Montoya Maddness and I am excited. We toured the F.B.I. Academy and the Marine Base in Quantico, Virginia for two days and we went to numerous museums. The U.S. Marines Museum was sweet. The Air and Space museum out at Dulles International Airport where the Enola Gay, the Space Shuttle and the Black Bird SR-71 was housed, it was huge!!! That took almost a whole day in itself. After my sisters Graduation we went back to the hotel and changed and took a ride up the coast to Baltimore to watch a baseball game - Baltimore Orioles vs. the Atlanta Braves. Braves won 7-2 but it was awesome. I got to spend time with my sister and her family. Her boys are a pain but we love them, I think they had an amazing time as Josh is into the World War II stuff and Cody liked it also but I think he is into girls more?? I just want to say how proud I am of my sister and all of her accomplishments and that I love her and her family very much! I also want to thank Stephanie once again for this sweet present and all that she does for me and our family and I know I don't say it enough, I really mean it!!!

*Teri * Cody * Josh * Joe*


*Nick * Josh*

*Nick & Teri at graduation*

*Space Museum*

*Joe * Cody * Teri * Josh * Nick*

*The Capitol*

*Washington Monument*

*Lincoln*

**DiSnEyLaNd**

*Brooklin and Minnie Mouse*

*This is how she rode most of the rides!*

*Horrible pic of me but this was on Splash Mountain... caught the moment!*

*Kirstin & Steph*

We had so much fun on our little girls trip away! We left Saturday and it took us a while to get to our destination because I had to stop at Mervyn's and we stopped at the outlets. Sunday morning we hit Disneyland and stayed for most of the day/night. Brooklin was excited to see all the characters but didn't know about the rides. She didn't really like the roller coasters at all - she would put her hands over her eyes for the entire time and peak through on occasion! We broke her in early and put her on the Matterhorn and later we took her on Splash Mountain - she didn't want to get wet and she did! I think we did the Jungle ride about 4 times and Winnie the Pooh about 4 times! We were able to meet some of the princesses; Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Ariel and Aladdin. We saw most of the characters twice... we had a lot of fun but we were pooped out by that night. Brooklin fell asleep before we even got on the bus and when we got back to the room she woke up and said, "How did we get here?" It was quite cute!
Day 2: we started at California Adventure and hit a few rides, had lunch, watched Brooklin get soooo tired and lay down in the middle of a bridge. About half way through the day we headed back to Disney to catch a few rides we missed. We also did Downtown Disney and hit Build a Bear!
Day 3: Brooklin and grandma stayed at the hotel while Kirstin and myself went to ELLEN! We had such a blast... we are definitely going back again!
We ended up getting home around 3am and everyone had to work in the morning, so we were running on empty! I think it's finally catching up to me today... I'm ready for a nap!

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