Greetings from Washington DC

Hello, Dear Friends.  We have been away for almost a month!  So let me try to catch you all up on our lives.  We are slowly settling in to our little house on Bolling Air Force base...little being the optimal word. Really, because of another BRAC decision, the base is actually combined with the Navy's Anacostia Annex, so we are practically on a Navy base!
Our second load of household goods finally arrived...almost three weeks after it was supposed to...and we are missing quite a few items.  Those that did arrived are severely damaged.  As it turns out, the truck broke down "somewhere" and then no one seemed to know where it had been taken....But I have been reminded by my wonderful family that at least we are all together and healthy!  Things can always be replaced.
So here are some pictures of our house (from the front and one from our bedroom window at sunset...except for the construction, we have a beautiful view of the Potomac river!)
We have also been discovering the area by foot.  As many of you know, Jay and I are training for the Marine Corps Marathon on October 31st, so we are finally getting some of those long runs under our belt.  Cam and Cael are expertly riding along side us and serving as our hydration and nutrition crew!  The last two Saturdays, we have logged 11 mile runs in the hottest summer in Washington DC history! When we finished this morning at 1000 it was 99 degrees.  We thought we were leaving the hot Texas summer behind, and it has actually been 10 degrees hotter that San Antonio for the last 2-3 weeks...UGH!  Several weeks ago, we ran from our house to the US Capital, about 4 1/2 miles away (9 miles round trip).  Last week we ran over to Fort McNair, home of National Defense University and the former home of the Army War College.  Today's adventure took us to the Washington Navy Yard, which backs up to the Washington Nationals Stadium.  You may be able to see the stadium behind one of the pictures of the boys.  They have a Navy museum on the base and the grounds outside are full of historical artifacts.  Attached are pictures of the boys on the removed top-section of a WWII submarine, Cam sitting on the anchor of the USS Enterprise from WWII, Cael in front of one of the large guns, and Jay in front of the NCIS building...yes, they were looking at him closely through the multitude of cameras.
We'll try to be better about updating now that we have real internet!
Miss you all!