Tuesday, June 12, 2012
The National Mall
The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

The National Zoo
Uncle Brandon is currently completing an intership in Washington D.C. as part of his Master's degree program, so while we were in Delaware last week we made a day trip to D.C. to visit him on his "home turf". Since we weren't meeting up with him until early afternoon, we decided to pass our morning at the National Zoo. This zoo is run by the Smithsonian Institute and is free (my preferred price range). This was an excellent zoo. The exhibits were large- probably the largest I've ever seen in a zoo, and there was a wide variety of animals. Brian and I commented several times that they had animals at this zoo that we'd never seen before. The premier exhibit at the zoo was the Giant Panda exhibit. The National Zoo is one of only four zoos in the U.S. that has Pandas, so there were lots of people at this exhibit . We enjoyed many different areas of the park- including the Great Ape and Large Cat exhibits. I don't know why, but the kids always love the reptile house, so spent quite a bit of time here. I really liked the way that the zoo was organized because anmials were grouped by their similarity to each other (birds, small mammals, large cats, etc...) and not by where they are found geographically. Here are some pictures from the zoo.
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Crabbing

Saturday, June 9, 2012
Delaware Trip 2012

10 cool things about our recent trip to Delaware:
1. Spending time with Poppy and Nana: The kids had such a great time "helping" Nana in the kitchen and "helping" Poppy walk the dogs.
2. The dogs: Bear, Duke, and Penny-No-Tail have probably never received so much attention in their lives.
3. The weather: Low 70s all week long.
4. Uncle Brandon visits: Uncle Brandon visited for the weekend and the kids had so much fun with him. He brought with him a set of golf clubs for the kids, and they enjoyed playing with those.
5. Fireflies: These bugs were everywhere, and the kids enjoyed catching them.
6. Visiting Uncle Mike and Aunt Connie: We were so excited to see them, and they took us to a place with the BEST ice-cream ever.
7. No sales tax: Which we took advantage of by purchasing new computers.
8. Celebrating Grandma's (Barb's mom) 94th birthday
9. Game of Thrones: Brandon introduced us to this series and we became addicted. We watched episodes on-demand every night after the kids went to bed.
10. Day trips: We took a few day trips from Dover, and I will be doing seperate posts for many of these.
The Mets and The Bombers

Thursday, May 31, 2012
Tropical Storm Beryl
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