National Arboretum

Sunday we took a drive to Baltimore for some lunch at our FAVORITE place. Chaps Pit Beef. SO dang delicious. And yes, we drive an 40 minutes to an hour to get there. SO WORTH IT! I promise. Look it up. 

Then we headed back to DC to see the Arboretum. It's a big garden area, most everything was still dead.. but we mainly wanted to see these babies!!!

These columns are the original columns from the Capitol Building before it got burnt down by the British 200 some odd years ago! The pillars couldn't bear the weight of the new dome so they were moved here! Look how gorgeous!! I felt like I was in Rome. 

 It wasn't near as cold as Saturday, around 45 degrees plus wind chill.. so a little photo shoot commenced! We also got lucky that there weren't a ton of people there that day. So it looks like we got the place to ourselves! But we didn't.. it was the luck of timing!