The girls hung with it
yesterday tromping around to all the memorials and monuments, but they sure
were looking longingly at the Museum of Natural History as we sat across from
it eating lunch. So that was our first –
and only – stop today. You really could
spend days there. People have told me
that, but it’s hard to understand till you go.
We let Carmen take the lead. She
went straight to the dinosaur hall, which was probably my favorite part. I just love seeing all those life size bony recreations
standing all around me.
We saw some of the Ocean View
exhibit, some of the Origins of Life, some of the Mammals. Then we went to the Insect Zoo. This was Carmen’s favorite part. Maybe.
She loved it all. There was a
lady with an insect cart letting people hold the insects! Carmen had to hold every one. The Madagascar Hissing Cockroach, the Tobacco
Hornworm, millipede, leaf bug, thorny stick bug. Icky, icky.
Well … I did hold the horn worm.
And we got to hear the hissing cockroach hiss, which the lady said she
had never heard before! Audra watched,
but did not touch. The girls and I
splurged on tickets to the butterfly house.
That was another of Carmen’s favorite things. Somewhere in there we ran outside to the same
refreshment stand from yesterday and grabbed a quick lunch.
There was an awesome Written
in Bones exhibit that included Egyptian mummies and remains as well as
Jamestown and Chesapeake remains. At the
end was a hands-on lab that the girls loved.
And we saw the Hope Diamond.
We stayed till the very last minute.
DC Day 2 pics
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