A woman in our homeschool group organized a fieldtrip with a docent tour that focused on nature at the National Gallery today. The kids and I rode the Metro in to the Smithsonian Metro stop and sludged our way through snow and ice to get across The Mall and to the National Gallery. Afterwards we ate lunches we brought downstairs in the cafe and the kids got to see the people mover, which was one of Buddy's favorite parts of the museum from last time.
Our good friends got a late start leaving their house, got stuck in traffic, and took a different Metro route than us that had them switching trains/lines which took forever, so they missed the National Gallery tour, but we met up with them afterwards at the American Museum of Natural History. PS is fearful of natural history museums because the University of Kansas had one that was filled with reptiles, bugs, stuffed animals, and bones. Once we got inside this one, she decided she might like to come back and tour the whole museum (we mainly just saw bugs, some bones, and the Hope Diamond). She may just want to come back to see the Hope Diamond again and the other jewels that we didn't have time to look at.
Baby X crawling through a bug tunnel.
Ants. Baby X yelled out "Bug! Bug!"
PS looking at the Hope Diamond.
EG, PS, Buddy and CG
The Washington Monument
Then we all road the Metro home together. Two moms, and 6 kids. Yikes!
Four of the kids.
1 comment:
You guys have been doing so many cool things around DC! I feel like there is hardly any history sites and stuff to visit here in Houston. The east coast is great for that.
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