DC: The Smithsonian Museums

Thursday was our big sightseeing day, I knew that I had to capitalize on what I could see in the smallest time and make sure that I hit some of the big sights. One of my goals was to see several of the smithsonian museums: three of them to be exact. 

Getting off the metro

At the first Museum

Air and Space: This museum was incredible. I loved seeing so much of the space history, the shuttles and the lunar landers. I have been fascinated by space for many years and I am just excited to see what comes next for NASA. I also enjoyed seeing much of the flight history. I think the only exhibits that I breezed through were the ones about the planets, although I did step in one and see that Pluto was still a planet! Way to go Smithsonian!

Inside the space lab... I think

Model of the Wright brothers plane

Hanging with Amelia Erhart

Natural History: This was the second museum that we hopped into and at this point we were in a rush to see as much as possible and time was starting to run just a tad short. We set a goal of seeing as much as we could in 35 minutes. I walked in and took a moment to acess the situation and decided that I wanted to see the dinosaurs and the animals. We did not see the rocks or the gene exhibit (which I was interested in, but not enough time). I loved what we got a chance to see, it was just so fun to see the dinos and the animals.

Watch out the dinos will get you

Deadliest catch is one of my favorite shows... this crab is HUGE!

This wolf reminded me of Lily... vacay is hard without the pup

American History: The last Smithsonian that we went to was the American History Museum. I was sold on this when our tour guide called it the American Garage Sale Museum, I figured that there would be lots of cool things to see. The first thing we did was grab a sandwich, mine was pretty terrible but my dad's was good. I would guess that I just picked a bad one. After lunch my father and I decided to hit the museum in 30 minutes, it was a challenge that we mastered. I will admit that this was kind of a let down to be honest, and the reason for that is that many of these exhibits were being renovated or being changed out. The best exhibit was the one about cooking in America, they had some of Julia Child's kitchen and some things about how different cooking was in the 60s. After that I could have done without the rest of the museum, most of the pop culture exhibits were closed and that it what I wanted to see.

Julia Child's Kitchen

Hanging with Julia Child!!!

This was a great day in the city of DC. I was so glad to get a chance to see several different museums, I would have loved a little more time in some of them but to get to see most of three museum in a single day I was pumped. I would love to head back to the city and see more of the museums and be able to spend days walking through them.