NYC - Washington D.C. - Philadelphia

I don't want to get too long winded about my trip because it was a week and a half packed with 8+ hours of touring each day.  I can simply say it was a lot of fun and full of good old fashioned family togetherness!  Surprisingly enough there was no yelling, screaming, or thoughts of joining a different family; we all had a great time!

I am a huge tourist in Philadelphia

This reminds me of the Rage Against the Machine CD cover "The Battle of Los Angeles"

We were on a quest similar to Nicolas Cage in National Treasure.  Only our adventure had less ruining of priceless artifacts and lawbreaking.

At about day 7 of our trip, this was the general feeling

Yay! Colbert!

These pictures prove that we were all there, and the smiles on our faces proves that we loved every minute of it!  The biggest disappointment of the trip was the entire reason we went on the trip in the first place.  About 9 months ago we booked a trip to NYC to see the Green Day musical "American Idiot".  We listened to the music regularly and were stoked for the show which we bought tickets to 9 months earlier.  Well, we got all dressed up and went to the show on Wednesday night only to find out that it had been cancelled and the last showing was on Sunday.

Fail.