Washington D.C.

These following 5-6 pictures are from the museum we did very last. I forgot to add them at the end so here they are in the beginning. There were airplanes hung everywhere and it was so amazing!! This is the museum by the airport in Dullas.

These are helicopters that landed on big cruisers in the ocean. They would fold the propellar like this because they needed to store them down below the ship sometimes. It was a HUGE helicopter!

This little plane was NOT a plane at all! It was a bomb and a person would actually sit in it, direct it where to hit and die when the bomb would hit it's target. The kids and I couldn't believe this one.

We took the kids to Washington D.C. the day after Christmas. We live only 4 hours away, so we packed up and drove and had a fabulous time!! Lots of memories were made and amazing things were learned that is for sure!!! We did a ton and saw even more!!! Here are just some of the things we saw and did.

This is at the Natural History Museum and these are crystals. This is actually how they were found! Doesn't look like a giant mound of Golden Grahams, the cereal? Just my interpretation.

Cate! LOOK OUT!! There is a giant Grizzly Bear behind you!!

I thought how amazing this was, that giraffes can't bend their front legs. This is how they would drink or reach down. That is pretty tricky looking....

Mike was so great! He was a great tour guide, he knew a ton of stuff when we went to the Space and Air Museum. Here is explaining to the kids about how the astronauts fit in this and come back to earth. How it detaches. It was so informative and we all learned a TON! IT was cool to actually be there and see it for ourselves. This museum was so amazing!!! The boys loved it!

An actual piece of the Berlin Wall. It was so amazing to be standing there and looking at it!! Now were are in the American History Museum! It was a big museum, we didn't do the whole thing...but Caitlin is coming with her Girl Scout troop in June and I get to go too. So, hopefully we will be able to see more of it. This was my favorite museum.

This is a cast of Abraham Lincoln'd hand. The boys compared..

Here is a sculpter that reminded us of the Higgley Town Heroes. We were laughing so hard at this one. This is outside of an Art Museum. I was trying to teach the boys about "perspective" and "intrepretation" when they are looking at art. Tommy was really getting into giving me his "perspective" on the art we saw. It was so fun! This is the subway in D.C. The kids got so good at sliding their card in to go through the gate. They loved this part each day. There was a shuttle from the hotel to the subway and then we would take the subway everywhere! We did a TON of walking too, that is for sure!!!

It was a beautiful day but it was sooooo COLD AND WINDY!! The kids huddled by the monument to keep warm. It was very sweet.

A view from at the top of the Washington Monument!

It was so windy went went to the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. Below is a video of just how windy it was.

This is the President's helicopter. It was HUGE!!!

This is the HUGE Christmas tree right infront of the White House. They had train displays all around it. Christmas music was playing loudly and a helicopter was going back and forth to the White House, practicing landing and taking off, we guess. It was so neat to be there.
Now here is another Airplane museum. It was right by an airport in Dullas. It was a great museum!! It actually had the Stelth Airplane!

This propeller is so big compared to my little family. They had planed displayed all over like this.This is the plane that stopped World War II by dropping a Nuclear Bomb on Japan, after they attacked Pearl Harbor. It was HUGE!!