Washington DC

DC was definitely a highlight! We were joined by Angelo in DC and enjoyed three nights exploring the Capital.  We toured several of the Smithsonian museums including Air & Space, American History and Natural History…kids loved it…..

 

The next day we had a tour of the Capital via our Congressman Eric Paulson’s office which was fairly interesting, especially when a Chinese man joined our group not realizing it was a tour for residents of Paulson’s ward.  He did ask the best questions and made the intern really nervous which I found amusing.  The intern kept saying to me, “I don’t know what to do, this has never happened before!”.  I tried to give him various solutions (i.e. we could all run and hide from him) but he preferred to just let it play out.  It got awkward at the end when we had to go back to Paulsen’s office and the man realized he was on the wrong tour.

 

 

The kids unanimously agreed that their favorite thing in DC was the Spy Museum where we spent hours exploring the exhibits.  

 

 

Afterwards we took part in a tour where we had to act like 'secret agents' and help recover some lost fictional weapon.  It was a bit cheesy but overall the kids had a good time.  I personally felt the best part of the tour was the two other adults that attended.  One was a grumpy matronly woman and the other was a middle aged man who had seen fitter days but clearly felt he had missed his calling as a CIA agent; both took the tour WAYYYYY too serious.  At one point, we had to run from some fictional bad people and the man literally shoved Melina out of the way.   The woman had a daughter in charge of 'scanning' (clearly it was a 'pretend' situation) secret documents the group found; she was literally yelling, 'hurry up and scan'.  I started laughing so hard and I couldn't stop...it was so bad that the naughtiest of my children (no names) was trying to get me to stop and was embarrassed by my outbursts.  It was soooo funny!