Home and Heart

We flew from Rapid City to BWI yesterday. Got in early enough to take Amtrak to DC to visit the US Capitol Building

The Capitol has many statues – each state is allowed 2 but we were there to seek out one in particular. Joseph Ward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ward_(1838-1889) was the great grandfather of Heather Ylitalo Ward – wife of Evan (Chris’s younger son). Very cool he is in the US Capitol and has been since 1963.

While we were there we also took the photo of the statue of Kamehameha I. This is a contribution from Hawaii, where Heather and Evan live.

The trip back to Baltimore on Amtrak was complicated by a 1++ hour delay because we had to stop halfway so our train could take on passengers from another Amtrak train stranded by engine trouble. We are REALLY looking forward to European train travel – the US train system leaves MUCH to be desired.