Washington, DC (USA)

[worked in city all day - met Katie's family near the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum (1630) and then we walked to Hill Country to have dinner - Brenna, Erin and Mollie started asking where we were just before we arrived and they later caught up with us - we finished at 1900 and the twins took Aria to meet up with some of their friends - the rest of us walked to Chinatown and then over to Union Station - shopping for souvenirs - on the way back (2100), we got in a HUGE traffic jam about a mile away from Van Dorn Street - I found out that the older girls were at my apartment, so I got out of the car and walked to the exit - no cars were moving AT ALL (later found it it was a four hour bomb scare and that the interstate was completely closed) - Erin picked me up and took me to my car at Huntington Station - I waited with the kids at my apartment until Katie arrived (after midnight) - bed]