On Friday, after the morning snow had subsided, we decided to take a taxi down to the museums (with our double stroller in tow). We did this in part b/c of our miscalculations from the day before, and in part because Songbird had thrown up the night before, and though she was feeling much better she didn't quite feel up to walking. So she got to see the museums from the comfort of the stroller :)
Our first stop was the National Museum of American History. I have been there a few times before and really love it. I love walking through the transportation section and seeing whaling boats and scrimshaw (all things that we read about in Seabird). I love Julia Child's kitchen, and all the real artifacts that real people really used. The kids liked it, too, but they were eager to move on to the next museum which promised dinosaur bones and animal skeletons. So after a couple hours we called it quits and moved next door the the National Museum of Natural History.
I have to admit that it is truly amazing to see so many "stuffed" animals and animal skeletons. We've been going through the Burgess animal book classifying mammals for school this year, and we saw so many of the animals we've been learning about. It was fun to let the kids name the animals they were seeing and to put what they've been learning into practice.
Alas, I forgot the camera on this day, so we only have the pictures from our mind's eye. Since the rain stopped by evening, we ended up walking back to our hotel. It was a much more pleasant walk with all the kids along for the ride.
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