First up: Museum of American History. I don't know what it is about museums but not only do I feel smarter walking around them, I also never want to leave. However, no matter what there never seems to be enough time to look at all the information presented. Towards the end I almost get frustrated and nervous that my family has left me or that I am not actually learning everything so I just give up and walk through... a twisted life I live, I know. Anyways, the American History museum was really interesting- especially the exhibit on the fashion of the first ladies. I love looking at the styles from the past as well as just how tiny it seemed everyone was at one point! Even the old general uniforms appeared smaller than the normal sized man today. It's all those burgers I guess- we just keep getting bigger and bigger!
After the American History museum, we were anxious to hit up the National Museum of Natural History (that's a mouth full) and yup- like the movie, Night at the Museum. However, to my disappointment, this was not the same one but just as great! I swear they had an exhibit on everything you can imagine. Butterflies, the ocean, mammals, ice age- I don't exactly remember all of them but I do remember seeing this freaky guy in the mammals exhibit.
I know...kinda resembles my sister when she sees something she wants to buy, which is pretty often.
The never ending Smithsonian created a bit of an appetite so we went over to the food court with the rest of the people with government badges around their necks. It's intimidating... especially because everyone's photo on their card looks like they are about to punch me. I got an excellent sandwich and a terrible sweet tea- I KNOW stupid of me to order sweet tea not in the south! We were all pretty healthy with our choices until my dad sits down and not only does he have an entire sushi roll, but he also opens his togo box to reveal a "yummy" assortment of something resembling stir fry. The man eats the strangest things at the strangest places!
The Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial was not too far so we walked over and snapped some classic shots!
Oh yeah! The squirrels here are oddly HUGE and it's pretty funny watching them try and run up a tree. We saw a guy trying to feed one (probably why they are so fat) and of course, he was wearing a Memphis Tigers jacket!
Something that's been weird to me is that outside-freezing and inside-burning up. And when I say burning up... I mean it's pretty toasty. So this morning when I asked my sister how many layers I should put on, I did not take this factor into consideration.. so needless to say I was sweating in the buildings due to my ski socks. yes, I wore my ski socks.. I DIDN'T KNOW!! haha and yes I took my socks off eventually and yes I now have the most painful blister of all time on my ankle from my boots! But you know what? It does not really matter because I am in Washington, DC and it's awesome =)
The last museum we went to was the Holocaust Museum and all I can say is wow. I had just taken a class about genocide, crimes against humanity and mass violence so I was familiar with the Holocaust and therefore had a decent understanding of the general events. However, no prior knowledge could have prepared me for what I saw in that museum. The hardest part for me was watching the video of victims explaining how they were treated and just recalling their memories. To see them tell a story of how they barely escaped death seemed so far from reality that I had to keep reminding myself they were not describing a movie. I feel like our society has trained our minds to pass events such as these as another video game or dramatic movie, but its so much worse. I am thankful for the opportunity to go to the Holocaust museum and especially thankful for the truth and real life experiences portrayed there.
Outside the museums there was this incredible drummer banging on bins and a grocery cart. He had on some pretty nice Ray Bans so Dannah figured he was actually in a band and just did this for fun, which in my opinion sounds awesome especially if he's that good. I mean he was great! He used the shopping cart as a sort of symbol and you would have never known he was just using plastic bins.
For dinner we went to a "hop pin" place as my mom would put it and did not have time to wait for a table so we looked for a bar spot and luckily found a little vacant nook that looked out at the street and got to eat rather quickly! We had to eat early because we had tickets to see Harry Potter at the Smithsonian IMAX and let me tell you... that is the ONLY way to do it! Even though I looked over at one point and every member of my family was asleep... I thought it was awesome. i basically got to touch Harry's scar. And since something has to go wrong to end the night, the movie cut off right as Dobby was about to rescue them and the man sitting on the 3rd row was not too happy. He yelled at the workers with his awesome accent and eventually went to get his money back, which was probably the better idea considering when it finally came back on after 30 minutes- the movie only had about 5 left. Oh well! we got a free pass for another imam movie at the end... too bad we're only here for a couple days! So with all that going on, we had to come back to the hotel and enjoy the complimentary cookies and milk... sooo gooodddd. Now my brothers complaining it's too cold and my sister's breaking a sweat. Hm... sweet dreams!!
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