...arrived in Washington DC last night. Christ, it's a lot colder here, in fact it's freezing, but our lovely Comfort Inn Hotel room is lovely and cozy, well done Elizabeth.
Today we take to the Metro, via a free shuttle service from Mr Comfort himself. We're dropped at Van Dorn street station and given a number to call when we need picking up later. Pretty good huh? A forty or so minute tube journey via Ronald Reagan Airport, takes us to the lovely Smithsonian, where we are spoilt for choice with places to visit, in fact there are nineteen museums here.
We spend an hour or so at the Air and Space museum, which is very cool indeed, especially the space section, which features film of the first moon landing and bits and pieces the astronauts took up with them; food, shaving gear, sunglasses, the tube they took a pee into...
Hornet mask
Had me a lovely cup of buffalo chilli at The American Indian Museum, where we were also given a performance of some music, just one guy and a single drum. A long time ago, American Indian children, some as young as four, were taken at gunpoint and made to live in institutions. They were stripped of their own clothing and forced to have their long hair cut off. They quite literally had their own language beaten out of them, for if they happened to utter anything in their own tongue, they were physically punished.
We visited the National Gallery of art as part of a quest to spot some of the characters from "Night in the museum". Nastassja and Oskar managed to find 'The Thinker,' a couple of cherubs and a dancer.
Next up, The National History Museum, where a very nice lady showed us all some
very, very old teeth from some prehistoric sharks. Liz asked if she could draw one, so the lady gave her some crayons and paper and sat her at a desk next to the jaws of a huge cousin of the Great White, a very old cousin indeed, who was about three times the size of his modern day version. Liz was happy doing this for an hour or so while we visited the dinosaur section.
And then it was on to Lincoln. Sat in his big chair at The Lincoln Memorial.
We've just about thawed out now. Lovely Comfort Inn...
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