Natural History Museum

Dane and I finally made it to the Natural History Museum in DC! The smithsonian has taken a lot more time then I expected and we still haven't seen it all. I got a Monday off so thought it would be a good day and wouldn't be so crowded. It was still very crowded just with a different crowd, loads of kids going on field trips. At four p.m. we returned for something and most of the kids had gone home so it was a lot less crowded.

Below is picture of Dane next to the Thor tree ;)

 Horsie head a long time ago

 Horsie head now

 A size comparison to the horse and the tapir.

 Another size comparison can you see I was deeply impressed by these miniature horses.  I didn't get a a good picture but you can see the horses used to have toes which slowly disappeared. 

 And the horse jumped over the Dane.

 triceratops !

 A walrus and a river otter right next to each other :)

Relatives to my wedding and engagement ring

 More relatives to the horse

 Giant Sloth behind me

 Mammoth behind Dane since he really really wants to clone one.

 Below is information about the first burial sites that have been found. I like to think how long man has thought about the afterlife and have mourned and respected the dead. Me, Toriana, Maren, Macloud and Dane all watched this documentary on the evolution of man a few months ago I thought it was funny that it said changing our diets to meat made our brains develop and made us smarter. Without it where would we be?

 It's always crazy to think about how species lasted so long and then could go extinct like that. Our species Homo sapiens have not been around very long compared to others. I wonder what a drastic climate change could do to us?

 This was my favorite museum. Dane's is probably the Air and space museum. It was a good day. I like using the metro but I'm pretty sure it costs more than driving. Which I think is bad. DC should encourage more people to use metro. Although the metro is used a ton so maybe they do need to get rid of people I don't know. 

 Dane I finished up the day by seeing the National Archives. We saw the declaration of independence. Dane really liked seeing the Magna Carta. 

 It was a very nice day started off sprinkling and then left the rest of the day with overcast. 

Almost a month ago

 Dane and I did end up having a really good Christmas. Most of it was spent with Dane's family. Christmas eve we had Korean food which was really really good!

 The next morning we had omelettes filled with some of the left over fried rice from the night before. That night we saw Christmas lights at the Washington DC. Temple which was fun they had a lot of mangers from all over the world.

I know you can't see us very well my camera was having issues again.
 Later that week we got to go to the Smithsonian National Zoo. Which was really really neat. I finally got to see a Panda Bear!

  Overall Christmas was a lot of fun.

Oh yeah it snowed today!

 I do miss the snow from Utah. And Costa Vida :)

DC Voyage

 Finally made it to DC but to my dismay I forgot my camera. It was really neat to see the Capitol. Dane has now seen the capitol in three countries; America, Cambodia and Germany. I have only seen the one in America. We went to one part of the Smithsonian and found out that all the exhibits are free which to me was extraordinary.  We went to the National Museum of the American Indian. We got to DC kind of late so didn't have to much time. We really liked that museum and can't wait to see all the other museums.