The Birthday...

The big day finally arrived after an, unbeknown to Olivia, 48hr slip. Much excitement and many squeals followed (including during an otherwise quiet breakfast serving in the hotel restaurant). Unfortunately for Olivia, but not Stu, the preferred choice of the Natural History museum was shut for emergency repairs so we had to go to the Air & Space museum. The below picture is of the girls playing in front of the infra-red camera, note, it is only our children who were pulling their tops up to expose their hot tummies. No pictures were taken of them showing their bottoms, but we can assure you all they were red too.A not so quick dash to a large toy store produced a barbie laptop, walkie talkies, strawberry shortcake (or gateaux?) characters and a new Hello Kitty handbag from all of her birthday money. There was also the obligatory birthday carousel ride.

Olivia did ask loudy why the White House was so called. After some stuttering Stu announced it is because well it's a house and well it's white. Fortunately no more questions followed.

Olivia's birthday dinner was actually a Mad Hatter's tea party in a private dining room that we were lucky enough to find! She really wasn't sure that the magic would last long enough to keep the table, chairs and all the food hanging upside down.FOD - With 130,000,000 books, manuscripts and microfilms the Library of Congress is the world's largest library.