Target practice, DC and bowling.

After the awesome 'chilledness' of Wednesday, Thursday saw us getting down and dirty!

Uncle Tim gave us a brief lesson on hunting weaponry, and then let us have it with some target practice. Tons of fun, but it was so cold that my fingers got all stiff. When we eventually got to try the gun with the scope, we were almost deafened by how loud it was. We learnt that we aren't such bad shots when shooting at a stationary piece of cardboard!

As we finished up there it started raining... but we still went 4-wheeling! It was so cool to open up the throttle in the corn field and and through a part of the forest. Awesome; except that raindrops kept flying into my eyeballs.

That evening we had the meeting, which also happened to be little Reef's first meeting!! How cute. He was well behaved.



The twins got to wear the waistcoats- so adorable, and they fit perfectly.

friday was a quiet day which saw us heading back to Rev and Daniel's place and making some yum tacos for supper, and then doing a little shopping and browsing at a local mall.

Saturday was the day we visited D.C! It was freezing because of the wind, but we dressed up nice and warm. Our first stop was the Washington Monument- it's exactly as tall as it looks in movies!- and then we got to get pretty close to the White House! 

After that we went to one of my favourite stops- the Centre for American Art and Portraiture. I had so much fun! Taris of course didn't, LOL.

I got to see two Edward Hopper paintings! They aren't my favourite ones, but they're still pretty cool.

Taris felt like we were there forever, and everyone was getting pretty hungry so we headed to Chinatown and stopped at Potbelly for lunch-super yum and reasonably healthy  :)

After that, we carried on the tour. We drove past the Capitol building, which is much more impressive than the White House because it's enormous and you can see it down almost every street. After that we made the short journey to the Lincoln memorial... wow, it was really awesome. He really is enormous, and the memorial was designed to use space in a way to make it feel completely powerful inside.

By that time we were all frozen to death and starting to get really hungry so we met with a whole bunch at the Cheesecake Factory for supper- yum! I had to try the cheesecake afterwards, of course. I had the red velvet cheesecake mmmmmmmmmm....

Today was the meeting- so good to finally get to see the congregation we have been waiting to see! What a lovely talk about appreciating the provisions Jehovah provides for us.

After the meeting, we went bowling. What fun! We got to meet  a whole bunch of brothers and sisters we hadn't met before, as well as see some familiar faces. Lot's of fun!

Lot's more planned for tomorrow!