Poor, E, though, we barely had time to look here, look there, run here, run there and then we were out of there. I hope she enjoys kids, because we certainly didn't get to look at anything for long. We did go through the space station (in which somebody ahead of had ... uh, er, flatulated ... so it was kind of stuffy in there) and through the moon section (sat with strangers, scootched over so they were squished, then watched the movies for 10 seconds, squirmed up a storm, then left), went to the airplane section and went through the nose of the plane (and held the gate for the remaining visitors, and tried to go through backwards).
It was busy, so it was very good there were two of us. I charged E with taking one child, and me the other. Which worked out well. Although we got separted once or twice texting internationally is very easy, and we found each other.
We left, had a snack, and chased pigeons:
Then we decided to go to the carousel. Walking there we stopped to take pictures of E with the capitol and the Washington monument. The pictures turned out not so good, but the kids are having a great time playing in the gravel path:
While digging Q2 must have realized that she wanted to ride on a bunny. But the carousel on the National Mall does not have a bunny to ride on. So we decided to ride on a horse named bunny. Which we found! Here is Q2 riding on her:
And here is me and both girls ... sort of me. Me looking old and slightly odd.
After the carousel we dragged, and I mean dragged, the children through Natural History just to get to the other side. We walked through the incredible new Sant Ocean Hall. We just breezed through the opening exhibit, but WOW. It was great. I'm looking forward to going back on a Monday or something when it isn't busy.
We dragged through the US Naval Memorial, which I really like, and hopped on the Metro. We left E and let her go to the train station alone because Q & C NEEDED to go home and have quiet time after all that.
And so did I.
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