Today we went back to the Museum of American History to do the 2nd floor. We had the stair/escalator/elevator think worked out this time! It's a little convoluted in how you get around. Or it could be us. Yesterday we rode up and down in the elevator in the Madison Building and finally gave up and just got out. No tourists on that floor...we just flashed our LOC cards around and looked official.
The American History Museum is in need of updating and remodeling, except for one part: Star-Spangled Banner. Ack--welling up just remembering the exhibit. This flag was raised at Baltimore's Fort McHenry to claim victory over the British. Francis Scott Key saw the "broad stripes and bright stars" in the "dawn's early light" and our National Anthem was born. We walked through that exhibit twice.
And then we hit the gift shop where we bought...books. Very excited about all the purchases--sad that we bought them in the beginning of the day and hauled them around!
We spent the second part of the day at the Museum of Natural History. We spent a little too much time in front of the Coral Reef Aquarium--we do miss the ocean. ❤️
Other random details:
--You have between 12 and 80 seconds to cross the street depending on the intersection
--We've only been almost run over twice
--Our motorcade count is up to 4
--Ther are roughly 1 million middle schoolers loose in the city
Tomorrow we drive!!
It could be you ... then again, when you live at the beach, there aren't too many elevators. Driving?? Do individuals drive in DC or just step into the back seat of black windowed limos? I don't watch much TV, but that's my vision.
ReplyDeleteMiddle-schoolers seem to be an issue. Perhaps a "blog" to parents thereof regarding appropriate behavior in the nation's capital (can we use an upper case C for that? Are Nation or Capital proper nouns in our time?)
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