Busy day in Washington DC

After leaving Asheville, we headed up the coast to Washington DC or in other words, one of my favorite places to visit in the country (and in the world at least until I see more of the world). I love Virginia so I was beyond excited to tour the state and see DC again.

Our first stop was the National Air and Space Museum. Mike and I were there a year ago but since we've been they have changed the space shuttle's so this time we got to see the Discovery which has actually been in space. We were pretty excited and seeing Mike in this museum is like seeing a little kid on Christmas morning :)

The Enola Gay

The view of the Kingfisher that those one the ground would see.

Grandpa Epperson's airplane that he flew off of the USS Salt Lake City. The Kingfisher.

Space shuttle Discovery fresh off of its last flight to outer space.

Shuttle with "authentic battle damage"

Th business end of the shuttle

At the air and space museum standing in front of Grandpa's airplane.

We were staying Crystal City which is just two train stops away from the pentagon and just 6 train stops from the mall. So once we got settled into our beautiful apartment that Uncle Randy arranged for us to stay at (Thank you so much!) we headed to the train and down to the mall. We decided to start at one end and work our way towards the other. So we begin at the capital building.

After we finished at the Capital, we continued our walk down the mall. While we were passing the National Gallery of Art, we found the sculpture garden. Their were some interesting and weird things but our favorite was this house that followed you and looked like it was moving when you walked past it. Unless you stood behind it you couldn't tell how it was leaning or positioned. (Sorry for my terrible explanation and the pictures really don't show it either...we tried a video but it wasn't the same as the trick on the eyes)

After this we went to the Museum of Natural History. This is my favorite museum in DC. I love the dinosaurs! Mike loves the geology section of the museum and explaining all of the rocks and gems to me.

This greets you as you walk into the museum

This is 22,000 carats!!!!

We made a quick stop by the American History Museum to see Kermit the Frog :)

We got another surprise at the museum. We found the sunstone from the original Nauvoo LDS temple.

It was a great day! We didn't get to do everything we wanted (their just isn't enough time in the day) but it was still fun :)