Day At the Museums

For our second adventure story we would like to highlight our visit to the National Museums of Natural History and Aviation. We started our day with a ride on the metro. Which was a first for almost all of us aboard! But Pop Pop, Will's Dad, came prepared with a metro map and directions on how to get us all to the Smithsonian stop. Will was especially impressed by his Dad's abilities! Isn't it a miracle that we all fit on the train?



The two bigguns with Grandma Chickie(Will's Mom) and Pop Pop (Our oldests' given name for Will's dad, his version of Paw Paw)

Our little man was a happy boy since he got his belly full! And daddy is always glad to have a travel buddy!

Here is the BIG attraction, although trumped quite neatly by the entire triceratops skeleton that we saw right next to him. At dinner later on that day I asked my husband, son, mother-in-law and father-in-law what they liked seeing the most and the vote was unanimous, they liked the dinos the most (Although secretly I thought my father-in-law enjoyed the aviation museum just a little bit more). Big surprise!

This was a really neat display that they had and so we took a picture and then did a little doctoring, I hope you enjoy their artistic appeal.

Where's the Stegosaurus?

Man, is it a long shot to think that this little dog (or whatever it was I cannot remember) is nosy?

Here is what the little guy thought was neat and where he chose a car set of Air Force One to take home with us. These are the WWII fighter planes that were such a hit with my little mechanical man, who is even at this moment playing with his cars.

We all really enjoyed this visit to the Natural History Museum, it is the first time I had ever been, although I have visited DC plenty of times, I always when to the National History and Aviation Museums. But the one thing we all thought amusing was one display in particular, I will explain.....

While wandering through the Prehistoric section of the Natural History Museum we came across a display, which, I might add, we would have missed had we not had a stroller with us. This display showed a model with evidence of prehistoric fish and a model with evidence of prehistoric lizards, then in the middle was the "missing link", which happened to be a drawing of a fish coming out of the water with legs. We found it to be quite amusing that all the "missing links" seem to be speculation without evidence; isn't that the first rule of hypothesis, don't make an suggestion that you cannot test? Ah, well it was fun laughing about the zillions of years this earth has existed and the things that happened to the environment. Next time we visit a museum of Natural History we want to head to the Creation Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Fun of Aviation

Our adventures began on a plane. Now all the boys have been flying before, but it is always different since this time we have never flown with all three at once! You can imagine us two directing the exhibition! It was hard work, which I doubt we will repeat anytime soon as we ended up being called to our connecting flight and holding everyone up because of an accident in the diaper area! It wasn't so fun to have my husband rushing up to me saying "we're late, didn't you hear them paging us?" I was not aware of our lateness and was greatly embarrassed when we boarded and everyone but us were seated, then a lady commented that she wondered how many children we had and I said, "Oh, only three." She responded "Only THREE!"

We came about all right and found that, when our returning flight was delayed we were bumped from our connecting flight and held over until 6:00am the next morning, that flight can be a test of our godly character the same as trials and persecution are. My patience, self-control, love, and steadfastness were all sorely tested and I regret to admit more than one was thrown to the wind to be repented of in quiet later.

But all in all we got some pretty funny pictures, I hope you all think they are as amusing as we do! Here goes.....



Hi Daddy! You still there?

He slept through the landing, pulling up to the gate and everyone else's exit!

This was hysterical, he was totally sprawled

Crazy! Crazy for flying in airplanes! (Just kidding, but I especially was ready to be home in Missouri!)

I hope this first installment is to all of your satisfaction and enjoyment, especially the embarrassing picture of yours truly! You can never say I shrink from transparency!

Many Blessings!