Why do boys have to be so gross?
While in DC Chris decided he wanted to make a photo journal of our trip. (Thank you Junie B. Jones) It has turned into more of a scrap book though. He is so excited to take it to school on his special day and share the pictures of the mummy with his class. I figured I would share some of the pictures he is going to use.
We went to the zoo and each person got to pick one animal they wanted to see. Chris picked the zebras, Ryan picked the elephants, I picked the panda bears and Ken picked the monkeys.
We saw the zebras briefly because they didn't want to be outside in the cold weather. Unfortunately the elephants were not on display. The person at the information desk said that they were going to remove all elephants from circuses and zoos and the National Zoo will be the only place to see elephants on display. Therefore, they are creating a suitable habitat for the elephants. Ken settled on the gorilla display instead of the monkeys and I was insistent we see the panda bears since they will be returning to China this year.
We then headed to the Natural History Museum. Chris really wanted to see the mummy and Ryan wanted to see the statue of the elephant they had outside. We must have stayed in the mummy area reading everything we could for about an hour and a half.
After the museum we headed towards the White House. We saw the tree in front and got this neat picture.
The next day was our day to see the monuments. We wanted to make sure we saw the Koren War Memorial since the boy's grandfather died in the war. It was really a neat memorial. On the wall they put every job possible someone could have had in the military during the time. They even had a picture of a working dog!
Another interesting fact is that they wanted to place 32 soldiers in the memorial to represent the 32nd parallel that divides North and South Korea. However their wasn't enough room so they divided the number in half and placed 16 soldiers in the memorial.
We then headed to the Lincoln Memorial. We could have spent hours there. However, the boys and I were tired and wanted to head home.
We walked through the Vietnam War Memorial. Ken would have liked to spend more time there however, we had both been there before so we kept moving.
We left DC about an hour after that and both decided that we needed more time there. We are talking about returning over Chris' spring break.
3 comments:
Looks like you had a great time. Our kids really want to go and we keep saying we will make a weekend trip. I was afraid it would be to much history and the kids would be bored. But it looks like your kids really had fun.
Kati (on Chad's computer)
Yup, they both look like they want to go home in that Lincoln Memorial picture...
At that point in time they were annoyed because I kept taking pictures trying to get a nice one. The first few they were smiling. It hit us right after this picture though when we couldn't find Ken and wound up looking for him for about 20 minutes.
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