Yesterday, we tired ourselves out! It started with spending the morning at the Air and Space Museum at 10am. Randy really enjoyed this museum and reading about and looking (touching when possible) the airplance and space crafts. Amazing how many people can fit in this museum as many school trips descended on the museum at the same time. No food nor drinks were allowed in the museum so while in the baby changing room we fed Sabrina a little bit so we could continue.
From there we hiked
up to the Capital Building. At first we didn't see anyone but then a guard told us we could tour the Ca
pital by taking an elevator down and then passing security to go into the building. We had
a nice tour of the
rotunda, Hall of Statues and an area where caskets were displayed before presidents were ta
ken to the cemetary.
From there, we took the underground tunnel to the Library of Congress! F
abulous interior! Intricate paintings and carvings. Before leaving we saw Jefferson's library collection and Gershwin's piano!
At this point everyone was starving so we beelined to the cafeteria in the Natural history Museum. My favorite section was on rocks and minerals! Randy liked it,too but also liked the dinosaurs. At 7:30 the guards kicked everyone out and we strolled home to get off ou
r feet and get ready for bed.
2 comments:
Oooh! The Library of Congress. Did they let you into the stacks? It would be so cool to be able to look at (and touch) a book centuries old.
We did see Thomas Jefferson's books that he sold to the government to start the library. There were only 3000 as the other two thirds of his library collection were burned, in a house fire I believe.
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