Happy Thanksgiving! November 28th

Happy Thanksgiving to all from the Nation's Capitol!  Many sites were even open today so we continued on being tourists.  We went to Mount Vernon where George Washington lived and is buried.  We toured the mansion that he lived in.  From the original mansion, he took off the roof and put on a second floor.  Can you imagine doing that in the 1770s?!  Later on he did it all over again and put an addition on each end.   By then there were 21 rooms, with 10 of them being bed chambers.  Crazy big!  They even had housing for the 'servants' of their guests.   Mount Vernon is located right on the Potomac River, an absolutely beautiful place.  We walked around some of the other buildings and went to his grave site.   

The next and only other tour of the day was the Holocaust Museum.  Ugh!  What a gruesome horrible thing.  The museum was very good and well done.  There was a small kids' museum within that was about a young boy that was about 12 years old whose family was Jewish and he narrated a story about his life and what happened.  At the end of the main exhibit we saw the Children's Tile Wall.  The tiles were painted by American schoolchildren in memory of the 1.5 million Holocaust Children.  

We came home and Jeff whipped up our thanksgiving dinner in about 30 minutes flat!  Yes for real.  We had bought a roasted chicken to heat up on the oven, mashed potatoes in a container,  gravy in a jar, Stove-Top stuffing, rolls, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie!  We pretty much had it all!  I don't know why you all spend hours on end in the kitchen!?!  :)

                                    We are very thankful for all of our blessings!  

**Sara