Virginia & DC Visit...

We decided to do a last minute two week visit to Virginia/DC for the holiday break to visit my parents & sister..

Since Sailor was going to miss a week of school we decided to throw in as much culture as possible.

We started our week with a visit to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. Made popular in the film, "Night at the Museum II"

the lobby crowded with all the other holiday visitors. The place was packed!

We took the Metro naturally and it was pouring that day. We got soaked on our short trek from the Metro stop to the museum entrance...

couldn't resist a picture near the Aussie animals...

There was no tables for eating our lunch because of all the people so we parked it on the ground...

The next day we headed to the National Portrait Gallery.

here we all are...

The museum had a great kids interactive area and they were doing a kids reproduction of this famous picture of Lincoln.

They asked our little artist Sailor to participate.

here she is working on her portion of the Lincoln collage...

Sailor & a Georgia O'Keefe.

one of the most famous paintings of Washington...

we took a picture with him because he is from California. That is the only reason why...

More VA & DC pics coming. We were busy while we were there!