Friday, June 20
We all got up feeling perky in our clean underwear today. After breakfast we headed out for one of the museums on the Capitol Mall.
At the Museum of American History we had a treasure hunt. GG told us to go find Thomas Jefferson's desk and read about what he did on it. It was on the third floor and it didn't look like a desk at all. It was a little wooden box, about the size of a big binder. He wrote the Declaration of Independence on this desk. We ran back to the central hall and told her the answer and she gave us another thing to find--what is hanging from the ceiling of the WWII room? It was a jeep.
In the Prisoner of War tunnel we found the poem a soldier wrote about his porcelain cup. Then we went to the second floor to find who's speed skates were there, why the Dave Jar is important, we saw the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the Star Spangled Banner, and we learned what happened at the Greensboro lunch counter. We asked for more and more questions to find the answers to and had a great time exploring the museum this way.
Time for lunch and Grandpa had to put more money in the parking meter, so we skipped, hopped, jumped, balanced on the cement fence, and jumped across the space between each pillar all the way to 7th Street where the car was parked.
We ate our picnic lunch while Grandpa told us more stories and a man came up to us and told us that his grandpa had taken him to Washington DC on a trip just like this and it is one of his favorite memories. That made grandpa feel really good.
After lunch we walked back down to the museum because our prize for finishing the treasure hunt was a simulator ride. We chose the "Superstition" Ride.. On the way out of the museum we stopped to pay homage to the 1965 baby blue Ford Mustang, similar to Grandpa's beauty. His was even better though because it was a convertible.
We got home before the traffic and played and watched some tv. GG made tacos for dinner and thank goodness she made double what she had planned to make because the gang was ravenous and ate everything again. They asked for tacos again next week, so it must have been good. I will have to double my purchases to feed these hungry boys. Tomorrow is pizza night and I am going to go to the store and buy two more pizzas to go with the two I already have because I am pretty sure that two jumbos are not enough. We have wiped out several packs of cookies and two boxes of brownies and a gallon of ice cream so far. Fruit is going more slowly. I am out of practice planning meals for 4 hungry boys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FLe3Nvy57o
We all got up feeling perky in our clean underwear today. After breakfast we headed out for one of the museums on the Capitol Mall.
Time for lunch and Grandpa had to put more money in the parking meter, so we skipped, hopped, jumped, balanced on the cement fence, and jumped across the space between each pillar all the way to 7th Street where the car was parked.
We got home before the traffic and played and watched some tv. GG made tacos for dinner and thank goodness she made double what she had planned to make because the gang was ravenous and ate everything again. They asked for tacos again next week, so it must have been good. I will have to double my purchases to feed these hungry boys. Tomorrow is pizza night and I am going to go to the store and buy two more pizzas to go with the two I already have because I am pretty sure that two jumbos are not enough. We have wiped out several packs of cookies and two boxes of brownies and a gallon of ice cream so far. Fruit is going more slowly. I am out of practice planning meals for 4 hungry boys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FLe3Nvy57o
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