tales of the happy transients: Semper Fi

This past weekend we headed to the National Museum of the Marine Corps, located right outside Marine Corps Base Quantico. The museum openned up on the Marine Corps birthday in 2006 (that would be November 10) and we wanted to go there sometime. Well, now that we are close enough to drive we thought we would check it out. After church we drove through McDonalds because it was right there and got on the road. This allowed Lexi to have a nap in the car. Then when we exited the interstate we decided to drive through the base (Quantico). This is the base at which David went to Officer Candidate School (OCS) after his junior year of college, as well as The Basic School after he was commissioned as a 2nd Lt when he graduated from college. The decision to drive through had a lot to do with letting Lexi sleep longer, but it was great for David to get to see it again. And I had never been there. Now I have been to Quantico.

This spawned a conversation about which of his friends had been there recently for a school. One of them he mentioned was about to graduate and so we gave him a call, thinking we could say hello. When he called David back it turned out that he and his wife live a few miles from us! So when we got back home we ended up going to their house for dinner. Good stuff. We felt kind of bad, though, that when we realized it was 8:30 pm (time flew!) we practically got up from the table and ran out the door. Lexi needed to be in bed! They understood and we will see them again soon.

Back to the museum. It's a very nice museum. Very well done. Lots of history of the wars and how the Marines were used in those wars. There was so much - we definitely had to just walk through some of it looking around. We just couldn't read all of it. We could definitely go there again! We had a wonderful weekend. This was on Sunday, preceded by a relaxing Saturday together. I love my little family.

Attempt at a photo outside the museum - Lexi REALLY likes mommy's hair.