Each trip we've taken over the last several years has been with the help of family and friends, and this trek was no different with many thank you's in order.

• So many thanks Uncle Eric for checking in at the ranch while we were away, making sure the fish didn't starve and piling the bills up on the kitchen table. We enjoyed the texts from home and wished you were with us at the Wizards game!
• JP... the new travel bags were excellent. We crammed the two of them with food, drink, maps, all the cards and ID, pictures drawn in the art galleries and our fancy yankee dollars worth $1.20 Canadian. Very much appreciated.
• Joanie-Joan-Joan... the kids love you!!! Thanks for the Nintendo DS and everything else!!!
• Thanks so much to the Cleveland Park tour guides... the two fine gentlemen who led us from the National Zoo to the National Cathedral (and the irony is not lost on this being the Samaritan section). They knew we were lost, they knew how to get there via transit, and they took us. A wonderful gesture made in a city full of strangers.
• Angie and Julian... thanks so much for the use of the GPS. For the trips down and back it became a welcome friend. I know I was glad to have it on the dash when I found myself lost in downtown Washington at 6:30 am!!! It's officially on our list of "must haves" before our next family trip.
• Once again, our long lost cousins from Conneticutt opened up their home and welcomed us on Thursday and Friday. We just can't say enough about how Steve, Jen and the girls make us feel so at ease and "put us back together" after our lengthy drives south. Your hospitality, as usual, was beyond and we are indebted. See you in the summer, if not before. Thanks... and thanks again.
• Thanks to the Porter's for arranging for us to stay in Appleton, although we ended up making the mad dash for the border on Saturday. We expect that it won't be too long before we're by your way again, and hope that you'll be dropping in the next time you cross through NS. See you all soon and stay in touch.