The first week of our trip Olivia and Jared had an ongoing daily "discussion" on who was the better president, Madison or Monroe. They literally went at it every day. Each listed the great accomplishments of their chosen hero. Alex and I would point out they were both Founding Fathers, they were both great and it was pretty hard to declare a winner.
When we originally planned this trip we were not going to go to James Monroe's house. Olivia, since it was her 12th birthday trip, planned the two weeks. There simply wasn't time to see everything. You could spend a month in DC for example before you might see everything there. So for the first week Jared was distraught that plans did not include Monroe's house who he has a deep admiration for. He can be persistent.
So one day we googled to find out were Monroe's house was. Low and behold it was 2 miles from Jefferson's house. We quietly consulted Olivia and she agreed that the family's sanity was on the line. We planned to surprise Jared and visit it the day we went to Jefferson's home.
When we arrived at Monroe's house he looked up and started crying. He whirled around and said, "Are we at Highland????" He was so excited! This stop totally made his day. Life was better for the rest of us after that too.
2 comments:
That is so sweet! I spent a day in DC last year and wish I had had my children with me to enjoy it. My brother lives there so some day hopefully we'll all go together.
What a great story. Glad you had a good trip. I would love to hear more about it when we are home. Question: Did they call their homes by names when they were alive or did people give it names later? I need to think of a cool name for our house that we will have one day.
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