We're headed to the airport early today and after a plane change in Detroit, we should be headed for the conference in Omaha. Meanwhile we were tourists again yesterday in DC. After the bookstore we wandered past the White House.
I didn't ask what this was about. I didn't want to know. But I had the impression they didn't like Obama.
These folks were taking their pictures in front of the White House.
Here's a
Segway tour group also near the White House. They did look like they were having fun. It's good to know some people have discretionary income these days.
We talked to a very nice woman named Denise who said she wasn't allowed to have her picture taken who works for an organization that does security and clean up in the downtown area. She said this was the old post office and you can get tours up to the top of the tower. But we wanted to see the National Gallery of Art. But on the way, I couldn't resist stopping in at the Natural History Museum.
This tarantula was live in the insect zoo.
The Komodo Dragon - a kind of monitor lizard - was stuffed.
And then there were several rooms of skeletons. These two are from a swordfish.
Woodpecker.
Alaska Brown Bear. But now that I think about it, it isn't very big.
The Hope Diamond.
Then off to the National Gallery. I'll post that later.
segway: "the wheelchair for people with functioning legs". ;
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