Saturday, March 15, 2014

Megan's 12th Birthday - Part 2

 We hopped in the car after breakfast to head down to Washington DC to visit some museums!  Our goal was to go see the Dinosaur Exhibit at the Museum of Natural History before it closes in April for 5 years for a restoration project - and to see the Museum of American History because they've never been there!

Cute kiddos in the fun park we parked near and walked through to the museums

 Our Family - LOVE this picture!

 The Birthday Girl in front of a magnolia tree - even if you can't see it well :)

 Standing in front of Harry - the large African Elephant in the rotunda

 The ladies

 The gentlemen

 Dan and kiddos in front of Diplodacus

 Me and my Moopert

 Her face for the majority of the time around skeletons - not her favorite thing

 Getting hugged by her Daddy after he was teasing her for a bit

 Kiddos and the Hope Diamond that Megan desperately wanted to see!  A split second before she saw it, I said to Dan, "It's really underwhelming to see it - let's see what she says."  And Megan said the same thing :) Fun to see, but you expect something much larger and different!

 Looking out over the Smithsonian

With her favorite cat - a Caracal!  We have pics of her with the live ones at the Aquarium in Kuwait, too!

 Megan wanted her special meal out to be dinner, so we bought them lunch at a street vendor as our choice!  The big kids and Dan got a hot dog while Kylie and I got a soft pretzel!  

 We're not generally fans of him, but a fun Spongebob Post Box!

 Jack liked a guy playing "drums" on plastic buckets outside

 My crew walking to the next museum

 Dan and I before heading into the next museum!

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