Throwback Thursday- Washington DC

OK, let's be honest, everything at this point is a "throwback."

 So at the beginning of April Luke and Lauren came down and Luke was going to work on our house while he was here. (That is another post) We thought that we'd try to do a little adventure while they were here. We took Nate and Graham out of school and went down to Washington DC. The Dinosaur Hall in the Natural History Museum was closing at the end of April, and would not be opening for another 5 years. So we wanted to get in one last trip before that happened.

 We took a trip into the Butterfly enclosure while we were there. We had never been in that part before, and it was neat to see all of the butterflies all over the place. At one point one landed on my arm and just sat there for a while. I felt like a Disney Princess.

 After the Museum we took a little walk through the sculpture garden. Finn and Bjorn needed some run around time before getting in the car for the long drive home.

 After we said goodbye to everyone we walked over to the Air and Space Museum for a little bit. The kids found these cool little space helmets in the gift shop.

It was a fun little trip down to the Mall. Now the Washington Monument is open again, so I think we'll try to go down sometime and get the kids up to the top of that. They have never been, and I have not been to the top since I was a little kid.