(From Monday)
10:46am - Wake up.
12:17pm - Leave home for Metro.
12:45pm(ish) - Enter Metro and get off at Federal Triangle station.
Well, I ended up waking later so we (Natalie and I) did not get into DC until after noon. We walked up to the Metro station and took the train to the Federal Triangle station. Our goal for the day was to visit two of the Smithsonian Museums: the National Museum of Natural History and Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. Mission accomplished.
We first went to the natural history museum. There were a ton of animals from all over the world. No, they were not real, but they were replicas or something. There were live bugs, butterflies, etc. though. There were some normal looking ones and ones you might be like, "That looks like a combo of two animals!"
After exploring the plethora of replicas, skeletons, and interesting nature-related facts, we checked out the Atrium Cafe. It was an ok cafe. They had soup, pizza, wraps, sandwiches, burgers, etc. You know your basic cafeteria food, but they were all crazily priced. Natalie and I got a total of two drinks, a slice of pizza, a beef wrap, and fries and it was about $26. Insane!
From the natural history museum we went to an art museum. We only went for a little while and checked out parts of a few exhibits. There were some interesting pieces of art, especially in the folk art area.
Once we had perused some different pictures and portraits we headed towards the National Mall and eventually found a Starbucks :) After we purchased our drinks, Natalie and I headed to the Mall and found some shade to sit in. After 4pm some time, Natalie and I returned to the Federal Triangle station to head home. We got back with only a little trouble and joined Mike and Laura outside the Dunn Loring station.
That evening we played Settlers (again).
3 comments:
Wow..you and natalie went all by yourself on all those trains and places..you brave, brave souls! haha! :) id be quite nervous doing that!
Ohhmygoodness..thats crazy expensive...i hate when foodplaces raise their prices just cause of thier location..
wow! that sounds like a grreat day!! :)
are you gonna post what you did today too?! :) cant wait!
I'm not too fond of big boring museums, but I'm glad you had fun! Didn't you just LOVE the metro though? That's totally like my most favoritest part of DC.:) and you're so right, that food was WAY overpriced. You could have gotten like seven good meals at Micky D's for the same cost! But hey, I'm glad you finally got to Starbucks. Perfect way to end any lovely day. :)
oh yeah, and several guys from the mission were into playing Settlers for quite awhile, but I could never understand it enough to play with them!
Glad you're enjoying this time with your siblings!
ok just to make it known the piece of pizza was pretty big that I got at the cafe. But yes a wrap (that matt got) shouldn't be $9.
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