DH and I along with our two younger kids (14 and 8) are supposed to go to a long-planned wedding of my cousin in a DC suberb this weekend. We would be driving up I-95 through Richmond and up to about 12 miles from DC. We had planned to stay Saturday evening at a hotel near the wedding, then spend Sunday and part of Monday touring museums and monuments in the city -- an approved educational trip for the kids. I was really looking forward to the event because I haven't seen some of my first cousins for almost 10 years and I love Washington.
Not surprisingly though, we're really getting cold feet. Over the weekend, we decided we would go to the wedding only and cancel the DC part of the trip. Ironically, we had thought we would make sure to make our last pit stop around Richmond, so we wouldn't be at interstate gas stations in Northern Virginia. Now, we're thinking seriously about cancelling. My 14-year-old has already said he's not going and my dh said tonight he doesn't want to go unless there was an arrest.
I'm so torn. Both cancelling and going as planned (complete with the sight-seeing tour) seem totally rational. Any words of wisdom from my DIS friends?
Not surprisingly though, we're really getting cold feet. Over the weekend, we decided we would go to the wedding only and cancel the DC part of the trip. Ironically, we had thought we would make sure to make our last pit stop around Richmond, so we wouldn't be at interstate gas stations in Northern Virginia. Now, we're thinking seriously about cancelling. My 14-year-old has already said he's not going and my dh said tonight he doesn't want to go unless there was an arrest.
I'm so torn. Both cancelling and going as planned (complete with the sight-seeing tour) seem totally rational. Any words of wisdom from my DIS friends?