days in DC

We made it to DC yesterday, depsite a flat tire 3 hours into the trip. An hour later and a few pictures of the kids in tires...we hit the road again and made it to DC just in time for...5 o'clock traffic...we got to Kelly's eventually and got to play at a nearby park for a while. Today we headed to the zoo. It was fun, hot, and a lot of the animals were sleeping. We did make it to an elephate demonstration where they had the elephants open their mouths, pick up their feet, lay down (that's pretty amazing) and get back up (also an effort!!), stand on a log...prior to the demonstration one of the elephants showed his own talent by turning his rear to us and pooping. Charlie wanted him to "do it again" and that was the first thing he told Jeff on the phone. "Tell daddy what your favorite thing was at the zoo." "elephant poop". It was terriffic! This evening we went to the air force memorial which was pretty cool.