Our 4th Of July

Our 4th of July was really great! We had breakfast with some friends that morning and played a couple games of Dominion. A fun game, but it takes a couple tries to really get the hang of it. Then we went home to gather a bunch of stuff to take with us to Capitol Hill. They had a concert that started at 8 so we figured we should get there at 4. We took the metro in with our friends the Madsen's and then walked up to the Capitol building and it was HOT! Thankfully once we found a spot to sit the sky was overcast for most of the rest of the evening. We played games and snacked and it even sprinkled a little.

Concert guests included Josh Groban, Steve Martin, Little Richard, Matthew Morrison (most recently from Glee) and others.

Steve Martin on his banjo.

Then there were some pretty awesome fireworks by the Washington Monument! We wanted to stay and wait out the crowd rushing home but the guards were sweeping the lawn so we had to leave. When we got to the Metro station it was packed!!!! The line wasn't even moving. We pulled out our blankets and parked ourselves on some grass and waited until the crowd disappeared and ate some ice cream bars. We arrived at home around 11:30, not bad! It was a great time.