Keli Travels

In September 2013 I went to the the DAR headquarters in DC. I went with my friend Michelle, Annarae and Tonya. Tonya took the majority of these pictues and I am so grateful to her. They are beautiful. 

Outside of the building..

 Annarae, Tonya, Michelle and me.

 This is what we saw when we were in that picture above.

 Our tour guide told us that a lot of TV shows are taped here and they "pretend" it is the White House.

 love this picture of me and Annarae.

our tour guide showed us lots of different rooms here are pictures are some of the rooms that Tonya took.

We went down this awesome staircase..

 Here is Michelle on the stairs.

 Everywhere we went we saw detail like this.

 They have this great library/genealogy center.

They have all these fun old-fashioned toys that kids can play with.

 our tour guide was this amazing woman from Alabama. That LOVED to shop at Talbots.

We learned so many interesting things from her.. like all the First Ladies that we have had are eligible to be in the DAR. 

 and this is a room that was made out of wood from a ship that wrecked in NJ and they DAR in NJ  bought the wood and did not know why.. and they later used it to build this room.

 and the best story of all!!!! THE DAR IS HAUNTED .. by this lady Mary Lockwood.

our tour guide has felt her presence several times. 

She always tells the story that when the ladies got the land for the DAR, Washington DC was nothing but a swamp and Mary Lockwood had the forsight to write 

"and mineral rights" 

they can never be kicked off that land.

What a blessing. Our tour guide talked to us about how she once saw Mary standing by her portait. 

Several times she has also heard voices.

ALWAYS no matter what, she felt peaceful. It is like the ladies that established the DAR are still watching over it.

After our tour Michelle and I had her sister Lisa look into our genealogy, 

and great news!!!!!!! 

WE ARE BOTH ELIGIBLE.. 

SO 

WHEN 

ARE 

WE 

GOING 

TO 

JOIN MICHELLE!!!??