Today a group of us went into DC on the
Metro. We met at the College Park Metro station at 11 am and went in
together. It was rainy so, we ended up just going to see museums.
We went to the Air and Space Museum first and stayed there until after we
ate lunch at 2 pm. Here are some pictures from this first half of the
day. We had a good time playing with all the hands-on exhibits that
were really meant for the little kids. These first 2 pictures Amy took
of me being silly... in the first one I was trying to pull this lid off of
the vacuum tube... and in the second there was this little balloon with an
astronaut in the basket below and the little kid was asking me how it worked
so I was showing him.

At this exhibit we could test our reaction time... and of our little
group, Amy was the quickest.

After lunch, we went to the Natural History Museum.
Here's a picture of Amy in front of the big elephant at the entrance to the
museum.

I left this museum early to catch the metro back into
College Park (it was around 4:30 or 5pm). Mike had said he was going
to come up to visit me in Maryland, but I still haven't gotten a call from
him. |