We spent Monday of our week in Delaware visiting two of the Smithsonian museums. I think that every school on the east coast was on spring break last week. I have never seen D.C. so packed. I bet we drove around for 20 minutes or more looking for parking. We finally found a spot several blocks away from the mall, parked, and started walking in the direction of the museums. Our first destination was the Museum of Natural History where we spent several hours checking out the various exhibits. The kids favorite was the Ocean Hall, so we spent the most time here and in the geology/gemstone exhibit. They were redoing the fossil exhibit, so there were only a few dinosaurs out. We'll have to go back and check out the fossils when they finish with the update.
After we finished up at the Museum of Natural History , we headed to the Air and Space Museum (my favorite). Highlights for us were seeing the Wright Bros. plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, and the Apollo 11 command module. Olivia has been studying WWII this year, so she was excited to see the WWII aviation exhibit. We only had time to do two of the museums, but I would definitely like to go back and check out some of the others.
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