4th of July Weekend

This year we decided to make a long Holiday of the 4th of July and take off on Friday.

We spent the day in DC at the Smithsonian.

We drove in and began our trip at "the Castle".

This picture is actually the beautiful gardens behind it.

we walked through to get to the main walkway and that's

the first time in my life that I have been in that building.

They actually had the tomb for the founder which we walked by...

We told B about all the different museums and he decided to go

to the Air and Space Museum.

I had also never been there.

(Due to lack of interest in anything space related)
The lobby...

Inside the children's area which consisted of a lot of machinery

and physical science things which once again

I know nothing... nor wish to learn about.
B and Kenn moving an engine.

We then went to the space areas...

Brandon moving a prism to make a rainbow

so we talked about breaking up light
that i know a little about...

rather scary missiles...

B and Kenn in the wright brothers room

bad picture of the Amelia Earhart plane

Now this stuff i was interested in...

the whole WWII room.

That Brandon FLEW through of course

(no pun intended)

Spirit of St. Louis

B by the planets

some WWII plane that B loved. he called it the

"Target Plane"

I am thinking that wasn't the pilot's intentions...

I did tell him that Uncle Colin's grandfather flew a plane in the war.

Otherwise he would point at a plane or an item in the museum and ask about it

and I'd go "umm its a plane?"

Yeah i was zero help in this place. I know now how bored kenn feels

when I drag him everywhere else.

We had a surprisingly nice lunch there

and moved on down to the Museum of Nat. History

We started with the Mammals...

Then the sealife,

B with a gigantic squid

then the Dinosaurs

B and the Stegosaurus.
He liked to count the plates

Daddy and B and the Femur? of a Brachiosaurus .

Oh how the familiarity of this museum washes over me.

B and his favorite dinosaur Triceratops or as he used to say

"trinocerous"

Which is rhinoceros and triceratops mixed

went upstairs to see the butterflies, Hope diamond

and a beautiful photography collection which is limited.

The trip is not complete without icecream.

Both B and I look excited to have our pictures taken

during such Icecream.

B said this day was his favorite of the whole weekend

and that he loved the space museum the best.

we love being so close to DC and now that he's older

try to take advantage more frequently!