Ford's Theater re-opened this past weekend, and of course we had to take Gryphon, who loves all things Lincoln.

The girls listened to a lecture by the park ranger I call "Civil War for Dummies" . I suppose it needs to be for the foreign visitors, though!

The Presidential box was eerie- hard to imagine Lincoln being shot during a loud moment of the play, John Wilkes Booth leaping to the stage, the chaos.

They even had Lincoln's coat he was wearing that night on display, complete with sort of macabre historic bloodstains.

Then we hit the Korean restaurant (gotta build up Mark's kimchi tolerance before we hit Korea!) and just had a great family day.