The trip to Washington DC with my youngest child was absolutely amazing. It felt so special to be spending time together - just the two of us - and to be sharing experiences. We walked a lot, we talked, we went to museums, we took a ton of photos.
Highlights:
- National Air and Space Museum - we spent close to 5 hours in there (I think the longest I've ever spent in a museum with a human under the age of 15). My personal favorites were Destination Moon and the Exploring the Planets exhibits. C really liked the Early Flight exhibit and the Planetarium. There is so much information... and it's immersive, and spectacular, and just out of this world.
- National Portrait Gallery - we went the see the collection of the presidential portraits. Very interesting - and I didn't know that there were 4 actual assassinations...
- Ducks hanging out in the Capitol Reflecting Pool.
- An elementary school we stumbled across thanks to my inability to follow a map - it was named after someone with the same last name as us!
- Butterfly exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History - C loved taking pictures of the butterflies.
- C also loved the rain forest in the Botanic Garden.
In other news: H joined track team. That's wonderful. Except the logistics of picking everybody up (at 3 different schools and usually - but not always - around the same time) and making it to (sometimes multiple) evening activities have gotten to a whole other level of complexity. Seriously, this is like Temporal Tetris on steroids.
I SO WANT to bring R to the air and space in Washington, DC! It has to be an overnight trip... From NJ. Another expense, but then again, money is just money. R is n love with all vehicles and space, so that would be perfect for him... Hmmm now you placed a thought into my mind... Overnight for Memorial day?.. I have that Friday, Monday and Tuesday off... Wheels are turning. Hope you are feeling like you got out of that slump. Did you? Get out of the slump. I can use some ideas :)
ReplyDeleteThey are doing a huge renovation on the Air and Space museum in DC - some of it is closed and it looks like they are adding another wing to the building. It's still amazing and there is a lot to see - and the updates they made to the current exhibits are very cool. They also have another location outside the city with a ton of airplanes and a space shuttle on display.
ReplyDeleteStill stuck in that slump... sigh.