Good Friday, March 29, 2013- we decided to take the kids to the Museum of Natural History in DC. We LOVE LOVE LOVE going to the museums and the monuments in DC. The kids just love walking around downtown and checking out the sites. We wanted to pack a picnic and eat near the Washington Monument but it was a little chilly that day so we decided to eat the museum instead.
If ya'll remember, many seens from Night of the Museum with Ben Stiller were taken from here. This is a wonderful museum for kids and family. We spent all day here and we even missed a few of the rooms. We did see the BIG elephant, the mammal room, the Hope Diamond and gems, Ocea Hall, Butterfly Exhibit, the Dinosaur room, Egypt which some very cool mummies and of course the anatomy of the skull and neanderthal room... so many wonderful things to see right here in our own backyard. Well, not really backyard but seriously less than an hour away and its free, educational and something that you should see.
We also visited the American History Museum but the kids were a bit tired by that point and we didn't go through the whole museum so we have to go back to visit that museum another day.
You have to check out the Museum of Natural History....amazing!
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| The Hope Diamond...beautiful. It was so crowded around this beautiful peice of jewelry and let me just say...there was also plenty of security around it! |
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| Medals of Honor |
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Parts of the World Trade Center...it was such a site to see and so many people were
around this area as well, reading and remembering... |
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| As President Ronald Reagan said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" |
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| What?! |
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| Girls on an old New York City Subway! |
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| Check it out! |
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| Dave and his neanderthal girlfriend with no shirt.... |
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| Dinosaurs...oh my! |
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| Triceratops! |
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| Beautiful tiara and jewels! |
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| Julia and I loved the gem room! |
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| Some kind of rock, crator thing that had a super deep hole. All of the kids tried to see if they could touch the bottom and no-one could! |
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| Whale |
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| Ocean Hall |
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| Mammal Room was awesome |
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| Magnetic Rock- this was pretty neat. The kids could throw metal on this rock and it would cling to it. I don't remember where it was from but I thought it was neat! |
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| Wow...do you remember this from the movie Night of the Museum? |
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