Diane & I stayed in the town of Springfield, just outside the city, and took the Metro into the Mall area. Here we start with the Air & Space Museum. |
Of course, we had to visit a little bit of home town history with the Wright Brothers' first flight. |
Diane enjoys some ice-cream after we'd finished our lunch in the museum café. |
I pretend to be diligently studying my Smithsonian magazine, blissfully oblivious to the camera, even though this was blatantly posed. |
A quick photo op as we walk across the Mall to another museum. The wind decided not to play nice with Diane's hair! |
This was the National Archives, made even more famous by the movie National Treasure. Turns out the building was closed and they'd set up some reproductions of the documents in a tent out back. We decided to skip it. |
Off to the Museum of Natural History, where you can learn about fascinating things like this! |
I stop for a picture beside some lovely bone-animals that didn't really make it into frame too well. |
This bone-saber-tooth-tiger was about to pounce on this other... bone-thing. |
Somehow we ended up in the African jungle, where this lovely feline dragged this poor carcass into his treehouse. |
Poor, poor buffalo. Or bison. Whatever you are. Good thing this sturdy glass wall was here, or we'd have been goners! |
Not too many pics this trip. Here we have the Hope Diamond. I hope my camera didn't get cursed just from taking the picture... But if that's the case, a whole lot of other people got cursed too. This was probably the most crowded room in the whole place. |