Steven had a day off Monday (we usually only get to play on weekends when all the other tourists are out and about) so we decided it was time for ANOTHER trip to DC to check out some of the fun stuff there is to do there! (I will never get tired of going to DC I think!!) A friend of mine suggested we check out the "Newseum"..a whole museum devoted to the news! Since they were offering free children's admissions...I decided that sounded like a great field trip plan!
The kids' favorite part of ANY trip to DC is the metro ride! They LOVE to get the all day pass and then just ride and ride and ride! Stevie loves to make us do multiple train switches to get to a location...just so he can switch trains!
This is the Unabomber's cabin. There was a cool FBI exhibit that had lots of displays and this was one of the items. I can't believe he could live in this TINY cabin for so many years!
This is the Unabomber's cabin. There was a cool FBI exhibit that had lots of displays and this was one of the items. I can't believe he could live in this TINY cabin for so many years! 
The picture cut most of it off--but check out Stevie's t-shirt gun...doesn't he look like the BAD GUY?? 
I walked through most of the FBI exhibt with Missy...explaining what each case was. The Oklahoma bombing was very sad to both of us--as I explained about the Ryder truck and the daycare in the building. We had just seen a daycare in an office building last week and she could visualize the children easily. The yellow metal in the picture is actually part of the Ryder truck that the bomb was in. It's hard to try to describe such awfulness in the world to your children.
We really enjoyed this part of the museum. Each day they print off about 100 front pages of newspapers from all over the world and the 50 states. (What a LOT of ink and paper! Hope they recycle!!) There was also a computer where you could view LOTS more that weren't printed! It was fun especially on the 5th of July when we went--we could see how everyone celebrated the holiday on the 4th!
Just a view of the museum from one of the upper levels.
All over the museum there were interactive computers. There were games, movies and other things to do. There was no way to do everything in one day...but the kids had fun trying. The nice thing about the tickets is that they are good for two days. We weren't able to make it back down--but if you were coming for a visit, that's a nice option!
Some days you have to wonder! Stevie had just shown me his favorite photo of Einstein sticking his tongue out and I should have expected it when I handed him the Abe Lincoln hat to try on for the photo (Lincoln is his favorite president) I just didn't think I would end up with Abe Einstein for my photo!
There was a huge Elvis exhibit. The kids laughed about Elvis being censored for shaking his hips--but then this generation grows up in an MTV and reality TV world where kids see it all. I was only 7 when Elvis died but it was still pretty exciting seeing all his stage costumes and stuff!
My favorite part of the newspaper...the COMICS!!
The view off the balcony of the museum was amazing!
They had four BIG sections of the Berlin wall and one of the checkpoints. Stevie is BIG into history and really thought this was cool. You could actually go inside the tower and look up into it. I can't imagine being separated from your family and not being able to see them--like so many of these people were. How very sad!
This was the broadcasting tower off the World Trade Center and all the framed pictures behind it are front page newspapers from 9-11. It was a very sobering exhibit also. The video that was playing nearby brought us to tears. The video shot by the newsmen was so powerful! They had another exhibit close also that was a cameraman's last pictures he took on his camera before he was killed when the 2nd tower fell. Wow!
After a busy day at the museum...we even skipped lunch because we "had to see it all", we were SO HAPPY to make it to "Pita Pit" and EAT!! It's one of our favorite restaurants from Idaho and Stevie was very excited to find one in DC last week. We had to go back to it even though it was SUPER HOT and we had to walk a few blocks from the metro to get to it! He has his best "Guy Fieri" arms out pose to eat his double meat Dagwood pita {grin} And the best thing about the DC Pita Pit? There's a "Potbelly" upstairs so we can get our favorite caramel and chocolate bars for dessert! Yummy!
I think we wore the poor boy out! He crashed on the metro! He woke up to drool trails all over his shirt {grin}
On the way home my phone gave us the notification "ding" of a new geocache hidden! When Kimmy read the description she groaned...knowing it would be "just another lightpost cache" (they are a common cache--not very exciting to experienced geocachers LOL! We like the challenge of hunting through tick infested woods NOT!!) We pulled into the Taco Bell on the way home (the name of the cache was "Yo Quiero Caching") and WITHOUT using a GPS...got the cache on the 2nd lightpole we looked at {grin} She didn't seem to excited about it...but I thought it was pretty funny! Way to be predictable people! We have decided we're going to get a little lampost from a model store and glue it to a regular cache--and call the cache "Just another lightpole cache" I think that would be awesome!
So it was another busy day...with lots of fun...that's life at the Weatherston Zoo! Gotta love it!
This was the broadcasting tower off the World Trade Center and all the framed pictures behind it are front page newspapers from 9-11. It was a very sobering exhibit also. The video that was playing nearby brought us to tears. The video shot by the newsmen was so powerful! They had another exhibit close also that was a cameraman's last pictures he took on his camera before he was killed when the 2nd tower fell. Wow!
After a busy day at the museum...we even skipped lunch because we "had to see it all", we were SO HAPPY to make it to "Pita Pit" and EAT!! It's one of our favorite restaurants from Idaho and Stevie was very excited to find one in DC last week. We had to go back to it even though it was SUPER HOT and we had to walk a few blocks from the metro to get to it! He has his best "Guy Fieri" arms out pose to eat his double meat Dagwood pita {grin} And the best thing about the DC Pita Pit? There's a "Potbelly" upstairs so we can get our favorite caramel and chocolate bars for dessert! Yummy!
I think we wore the poor boy out! He crashed on the metro! He woke up to drool trails all over his shirt {grin}
On the way home my phone gave us the notification "ding" of a new geocache hidden! When Kimmy read the description she groaned...knowing it would be "just another lightpost cache" (they are a common cache--not very exciting to experienced geocachers LOL! We like the challenge of hunting through tick infested woods NOT!!) We pulled into the Taco Bell on the way home (the name of the cache was "Yo Quiero Caching") and WITHOUT using a GPS...got the cache on the 2nd lightpole we looked at {grin} She didn't seem to excited about it...but I thought it was pretty funny! Way to be predictable people! We have decided we're going to get a little lampost from a model store and glue it to a regular cache--and call the cache "Just another lightpole cache" I think that would be awesome!
So it was another busy day...with lots of fun...that's life at the Weatherston Zoo! Gotta love it!
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