Papa and Patty's Big Date

I hope you are sitting down! I don't know what the shock of seeing two blog posts from me in one week might do to you! :)

Patty and Ashley had a "Big Date" on September 13th. Patty had been looking forward to it as soon as mama and papa started talking about it. What was her big date with papa, you ask? Well... what gets Patty excited?

A. Elmo
B. Big Bird
C. Cookie Monster
D. Grover
E. All of the Above.


If you guessed "E" you would be totally correct (all the rest you'd just be 25% correct, lol!) Yep, Patty and Papa went to see the Sesame Street Live Performance of "Elmo's Green Thumb" at the 1st Mariner Arena and Baltimore.











Patty had an absolute blast! :) Papa really treated her while they were there! :) She got Dippin Dots -


and french fries. Papa even let her pick out ONE thing from the "Elmo Store". She chose a ball (what could be better for Patty than a ball with the entire Sesame Street gang on it? Not much!)
You can see it in this picture:


It's at Patty's eye level off to the right. She just loves that ball.

On the way home, Patty fell asleep. Ashley called me and said, wanna go for a drive? I said sure! :) Just let me get dressed! (HAHA - It was a lazy day for me since Patty was gone!) I went downstairs and joined them in the car. We ended up driving to D.C. and walked the National Mall. I, of course, left the camera in the car (which was at the Park and Ride as we took the Metro in to save on parking headaches!) Once out of the Smithsonian Metro Exit we sat on the National Mall and ate our Sub Sandwiches (which we had brought with us). Patty had devoured all the Potato chips on the Metro, and so, being full she decided to run around and explore! That definitely made for a quick lunch! From there we went to the Capital and back. We stopped at the Capital Gardens. A beautiful sight to behold. As we continued on to the Capital, what passed us but a group of tourists on Segway's (the scooter that you stand up and ride on!) I hadn't seen any group like that before and thought "how lazy", however, after walking up and up and up to the Capital Building, I started thinking how smart, lol! :) On the way back from the Capital Building we started passing some of the Smithsonian Buildings (we decided to walk down the opposite side of the National Mall). And, remember when I couldn't find the Museum of Natural History? Yep, there it was - in plain sight! :) How silly am I? VERY! :) We only had a few minutes before it closed, but Patty loved the massive elephant in the main entry and the dinosaurs off to the right. Of course, I loved the ice cold water I forced Ashley to go buy (Yes, we had brought water bottles with us, but who knew 3 bottles of water weren't going to be enough to ward off our thirst?!?!) (darn humidity and heat!!)

Well, I'm gonna go now - things to do and couches to rest on! :)

Love you all and miss you all very much!! :) Take Care!!

Another day, another adventure!
Thanks for reading!
The Matteson's