DC Trip: Day 4

Well...
I see it has almost been yet another year since I last updated. We've been doing some really fun things recently but I will have to wait to blog about those. I still need to finish up our DC trip and last years vacation before I can post about this years!

Sorry for not keeping up to date on this lately, I guess things have gotten busier than I expected, but I will try really hard to get this going again. Sometimes I forget that not everyone that likes to see this blog isn't already on facebook looking at all the pictures all the time.

Back to DC...
On day 4 of our trip we were so worn out from our looooong day just hours before. We ate a good breakfast and then we were off to the Museum of Natural History. I was looking forward to this one because I kept thinking about Night at the Museum which also took place at the Museum of Natural history, only it was the one in NYC. There were so many things to look at here and we quickly realized that we would probably be spending more than one day here. After we figured that out we really just took our time walking around and looking at all sorts of things. We started in the Gem room. There were gems in all shapes and sizes and meteorites that looked really funny.

Moon Rock!

We even got to see the Hope Diamond

...and some other pretty jewelery

Next we went to the butterfly gardens. There were so many butterflies (about 300) and there were all different sizes and colors. One butterfly came and landed on my ponytail. I could actually feel it's little feet moving on my head and it felt really funny. Then another one kept floating around the corner of Rich's glasses. It really couldn't decided if it wanted to land or not, and then found some plant to land on instead.

After spending a lot of time there, we headed around to see some stuff on western culture. There were a lot of Greek pots and vases and some mosaics. there were also some ancient scrolls that had stories on them about farmers and oxen and such, but they were all written in Hebrew it looked like.

Ancient Greek Pot

After we got through the top floor we decided to take a quick walk around the first floor and then come back the next morning for better pictures and when there were less people.

When we left the museum we headed up north to get some dinner. We wound up going to the Hard Rock Cafe and saw Michael Jackson's Beat It jacket. The funny thing is, it was so small, I think I could have worn it and it may have even been a bit tight on me! Pretty cool to see though.

After dinner we just headed back to our B&B and just relaxed for the rest of the evening. It was such a nice, restful day.