Our camera is cooler than anticipated.

Our camera actually used to be just my camera in the days before I shared everything. Now it is the Frost family camera and, it turns out, the thing is amazing.

I (yes, I, Amanda, not Jason!) took this picture at Union Station today! I spent a while this morning fiddling around with the special effects settings. I guess this is for if you are too lazy to use Photoshop, but I like it anyway.

Jason took the following wonderful photo (check out my coy blushing...okay, my cheeks are just permanently red and the "color accent" feature picked up on it) at the Marriott this morning.

Our Internet, however, is not amazing, which is why I can't finish loading today's pics. (Update: the Internet randomly began to work a little later).

Today was a fantastic day! We met Mom and Dad Frost for the best non-home-cooked breakfast in the world at the Marriott in Bethesda. After breakfast, we went into town on the Metro and went on a tour of the Capitol! We returned to Bethesda and ate at Rock Bottom, the restaurant where we ate with Jake and Dave when they were here over Christmas. Their presence was sorely missed :) Can little smiley faces like that stand in as punctuation? I feel weird writing :)., because then it looks like my little smile--intended to soften sarcasm or wry wit--has a facial deformity. Oh well.

After dinner, we went to see the temple. I imagine I've probably seen the Washington D.C. temple in person before, but I don't remember such an experience. I do remember a picture of it hanging on my bedroom wall when I was little and thinking that it was probably the most beautiful building in the world. As soon as we saw it through the trees tonight, my heart did a little leap; it really is a stunning building!
When I was younger, I thought I might want to get married in the D.C. temple because my parents did. Interestingly, Jason's parents got married there too! What are the odds!

I love the temple.

See (many of) you soon!

It always rains on Sunday

Our trip to Washington by the numbers...

Total number of Capitol tours for both of us combined: 5

Distance from the apartment to the White House: 1.1 miles

False fire alarms: 1

Books in our apartment (not including scriptures): 15

Motorcades witnessed by Amanda: 4

Car horn honks heard in the last 60 seconds: 6

Chinese restaurants within one mile of our apartment: 10

Number of times we have eaten Chinese food: 0

Distance from our apartment to the Pullan's house: 2,131 miles

Distance from our apartment to the Frost's house: 341 miles

Temperature outside right now: 46 degrees fahrenheit

Minutes until our lasagna is cooked: 41

We didn't think we were going to have to teach primary today, but then the teacher for the senior primary boys was unexpectedly absent. Our class consisted of two boys. Partway through the lesson, one of their moms came in and sat in for the rest of the lesson. She was a recent convert and really contributed to the lesson. Although we've been counseled to spread the gospel via new media forms, I still feel weird about sharing spiritual things on a blog, but it's Sunday, so I guess I can. Anyway, the mother bore a wonderful testimony at the end of our lesson. It made me think about my own testimony and what a blessing it is to have the gospel in my life.

I hope you all had a good Sunday! Hopefully we'll have more exciting news to report in the coming week. Jason's grad school applications should be done soon and we get to go to the temple on Saturday!! Hooray!