Artifacts and heart attacks
Yesterday, as a special treat, we took a trip to D.C. to visit the National Museum of Natural History. We like museums. I think it’s similar to the way I like to shop without buying anything. I like looking at stuff. The Smithsonian museums are pretty good. The Natural History museum is so huge, we could have spent several days exploring it. We also stopped by the castle and the Freer and Sackler galleries. It was a pretty packed day.
We caught the IMAX safari flick in the morning after viewing a few artifacts, and headed to the museum cafe for lunch. I felt my blood pressure rise sharply when I realized that our lunch of pizza, tacos, fruit and soft drinks totaled $41. Now we know how the Smithsonian really stays in business.
Some of our other favorite museums include: the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn. and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Ill. We have family in both places so it was easy to visit these. If you happen to be in either place, I recommend them both.
It’s pretty nice to take a day trip up to D.C.; the trip is about the same amount of time it took us to drive from St. Charles, Mo. to Columbia for the day. We’ll try to get out of C’ville now and then to visit and see the sights. We’re waiting for some friends to visit to go the the Air and Space museum with us, and for the renovations to end at the American History museum, so we’ll probably go back in the spring to see the zoo and maybe take a Saturday trip this summer. The rush hour traffic on the way home put a damper on the trip so it may be awhile before we’re ready to roadtrip it again.