We had planned to visit Randy's family in Massachusetts after leaving Claymont. Since Washington, D.C. was pretty much on the way, and Holly had never been, we decided to swing by. Eight hours of sightseeing gave us just enough time for a brief perusal of the Smithsonian Museums of Natural History and American History, and to hurry through the Mall. We left DC at dusk, and the ensuing 18 hour car trip (with detours) brought our total waking hours to around 30. The spare room at Randy's mom's house never looked so inviting.
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| Washington Monument-icorn |
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| One of the Philadelphia gunboat guns at the Museum of American History |
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| Holly tests her memorization of the Gettysburg Address |
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| Warren G. Harding's jammies |
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| The first Washington Monument went over about as well as you'd think a shirtless statue of a Founding Father would |
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| White House china before it was all decorated with only the US seal (note the oyster plate) |
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| Antiquated (thankfully) tonsil remover. Say "AAAAAAHHH!" |
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| Jefferson surrounded by the names of the hundreds of people he owned |
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| Evolution's sense of humor: a 40 foot long sea monster with itty bitty vestigial legs |
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| Today's children are not so easily impressed |
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| Limestone deposit |
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| Gaze into my 106.75 lbs crystal ball |
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| Holly couldn't get over the crazy crystal formations in the Hall of Gems and Minerals |
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| Quartz inside a petrified dinosaur bone, and petrified wood that looks like a landscape painting |
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| Paying our respects at the Vietnam memorial |
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| Einstein reads us a mathematical bedtime story |
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| Randy passes through Presence on the Path by Beatriz Blanco |
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| Ruben Dario creepin' at the AMA |
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| Rendition of early human agriculture at the Museum of Natural History. It's time to get back to our roots. |
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