We didn't actually have time to go to Ellis Island, or even to the other side of the Statue Of Liberty.. So here's a behind shot. Haha.
Kenz had originally planned to wear her DC shirt today.. So we all decided we would! We looked exactly like what we were.. Tourists!
The kids were shocked at how many sky scrapers there were.. This picture actually has the buildings they used to keep immigrants in when they first entered the country back in the late 1800's to make sure they had no diseases.
Today was pretty eventful, we woke up in DC this morning to find out that there had been an earth quake! Talk about scary! The kids (and grandma) kept teasing me that I could be a professional taxi driver in New York. Those are some scary streets, and even scarier drivers! We also went into two different tunnels that went under two different rivers. Tonight we're staying outside of the city, and tomorrow we're hoping to make it all the way up to Maine.
The start of July 14......Ohio,
and Pennsylvania. The camera deleted Maryland, and West Virginia.
Grandma and Kenz said this looked like an Angelina Jolie or Kate Gosselin picture with all the kids flocked around me walkin down the street. :) 
The kids in front of the White House.. 
While we were taking pictures in front of the White House the president flew away in one of these two helicopters.. One was sent with him actually in it, and one was sent as a decoy. 
Slade was pretty impressed by the sniper/look out posted up on the roof before and after the helicopters left. As we were walking towards the Washington Monument we passed two or three cops in the park with a couple military tactical guns.. We didn't have dad with us to give us the exact names of them..
Slade figured out a new system of washing his own hands at our rest stops!
We drove passed this school in Kansas and Kenzie made us go back.. It was the name of her Junior High, and the Mascot of her High School! And it was in the ghetto just like her schools. ;)
The kids took to blowing bubble gum to stay entertained for a bit.
I got sucked into the gum chewing/bubble blowing only seconds after they started. :)
That night for dinner we stopped at this place called "Ted's Montana Grill." It was seriously probably one of the best burgers I've ever had! Grandma got a buffalo steak and she loved it too. The kids had homemade macoroni cheese and they said they loved it as well. I wish they'd open one back home!!
Kenzie made me take this picture of St. Louis as we were driving into it.. I think it was the first city with sky scrapers we'd seen since we left home!
Kenz was really upset when we saw that the state marker for Missouri wasn't one we could get out and take a picture with.. They started referring to it as "Misery." ;)
Kenz took this as we were driving the old cobble stone back streets in "Misery." The Missouri river was so full that it was flooding everywhere.
The kids were super hot as we were looking at the arch in Missouri.. They aren't used to how humid it is here.
The arch in Missouri... That black lump standing under it is the kids. :)
We drove right passed the stadium where the Cardinals play and Kenz had to snap a few pictures for the baseball fan Dad back home. :)
We missed the tiny Indiana sign on the road, but thankfully a rest stop just over the border had this one.. Thank goodness for those rest stops!! :)
I gotta say though, we stayed in the most gorgeous valley yesterday, I couldn't resist taking a picture before we left the hotel.. 
Lets just say.. We're hoping tomorrow won't be as long of a day as today was, that's for sure.