Washington DC Trip: Day 7

Today we: went to the National American Indian Museum and the National Air and Space Museum, before leaving Washington DC.

Hello friends Padawan here. Today we went to the air and space museum and stuff. Now we are watching Monty python the holy grail. I'm tired and pooped so I don't have much to say. Good bye metromen. LUV YA~<3
LOVE PADAWAN!

Cat Nip: Well, the American Indian thing was strange. I loved the air and space museum  because I love airplanes. I was yawning all day and I got a little rialed up at dinner. But I calmed down after a movie of El Dorado.
Meow,
Cat Nip

Doll again
I am so happy to have visited the native american museum today. It was amazing! I was so inspired by their determination, creativity, and faith. Beautiful people. Air and space was next. Padawan was done with looking at "stuff" and, having been in A&S two other times in my life, I will admit that this is a museum that I will not go out of my way to visit in the future. I love flying, but there is too much going on there! The American indian museum was so peaceful and well thought out. So we are on our way home. Great trip! And my feet didn't hurt today! I wore my sandals and my feet thank me! The morning started off with sleepy girls but we were ahead of schedule. That was a first! I had a Bison Burger for lunch - another first! Fry bread with honey and cinnamon. Yup! Another first!
I could tell Padawan & Cat Nip were missing home when they began telling Scholar stories about their pets.
Lacrosse - we wish you had joined us!
Doll out.

Scholar: Today did not feel like the last day of our trip. It makes me kind of sad, since this was something we've worked for for 5 years and its already over. Tears. After the Spy Museum, the American Indian Museum is my favorite, and I would've done a lot more reading in each exhibit if I had not been so rushed. Everything was really interesting. For lunch, we ate at the cafeteria there, which was the best cafeteria I've ever been to. They had Native American foods from different regions (I got an Indian Taco, which was dry bread with bison chili, lettuce, tomatoes and onions in it), and everything I put in my mouth was good. Fry bread is my new favorite thing, it tastes so good and if you get me some I will love you forever. The Air and Space Museum was super busy. Now we're on the road, heading back home, watching various movies and falling asleep in the car. When we got to the hotel (a few minutes before I post this blog) we discovered it reeks of cigarettes in the hallway and some other smell (cigars??) in our room. It's sickening. I hope I can get some sleep and won't die of lung cancer.

Raccoon Killer: Yes, it is hard to believe it was the last day of our long awaited Washington DC trip. Five years in the making with Fall Product sales, Cookie Sales, one yard Sale and 2 Car Washes that that only got us $39.00 total.  Any way we had more than enough for this trip.  At the American-Indian Museum, they told you to start on the 4th (top) floor and work your way down.  The top floor had a lot of videos of animated stories.  Very good!  Some parts were a little depressing because of all the exhibits about the Indian Removal/ Trail of Tears, etc.  Their Cafe was good but expensive. The gift show had a lot of cool items.  But no patches.  I asked about them and the lady said, "No, we don't but we keep asking them for some."  I was in shock.  Really, No Patches?" After lunch we went to the Air & Space Museum.  I was only there for about an hour and that was in the gift shop getting patches for the girls and figuring out what to get my boys.  I have bad feeling about that museum from the time I was last there when I was 15.  I refused to walk around it again.  So, instead, I went down a few blocks to the African Art Museum to track down some elephant bookends.  I had seen some orange ones at the Smithsonian Castle on Monday when we took a break from riding bikes. The worker there told me there were red and blue at the African Art Museum.  They did not have blue.  So I bought the red pair.  made out of Soap Stone and very heavy.  I also went through the Divine Comedy exhibit that Samantha, Julia, & Megan saw on Monday.  I asked if they had patches.  They also said, "No, we don't."  Are you thinking what I am thinking?  Discrimination or double standard? Both the African Art Museum and the American Indian Museum does not have patches like other Smithsonian Museums.  Makes you wonder.  After that we got back on the Metro for the last time.  We made it just before rush hour!  We did not want to do the cattle shut into a sardine can again.  We ate supper to give the traffic time to clear out before we headed to South Hill, VA for the night.  I drove a little over 3 hours to get there because of  stop and go traffic outside of DC for no apparent reason.

Lacrosse, you missed a great trip!