Monday, May 18, 2009

We ate lunch with Obama

Not really, but we did do some fabulous things in DC and I'm sure we touched something or looked at something that the president once did too. There was so much to do in DC, it was tough to narrow it down. We mostly hit the National Mall. We stayed with my Aunt and Uncle in Maryland. On a typical day we would drive about an hour into DC, park, and then spend the rest of the day on foot sightseeing. Navigating in the car was a bit tricky and there were moments I thought we were going to die, but Logan handled the roads well and we survived.


Our many tools of navigation



We caught two frogs. We just couldn't resist pulling over and snatching them.


Lincoln Memorial


We passed a family of Geese each day on our walk. I wanted to pet one, but I think the family disowns them and pecks them to death if they are handled by humans. Correct me if I'm wrong.





Birds!

This is at the National Museum of Natural History. This nasty creature was the first to come out of the water and walk the Earth. It was a giant crustacean/scorpion thing. Truly alarming.

I love these. They are just like the animals we have today, but like the early versions that were a little bit defective so its funny.


Logan next to a life size replica of a giant sloth. Yeah that's what I said, giant sloth.

Yet another reason to praise rats. This little guy has passed its DNA onto billions of descendants- including YOU!

Can you believe they gave us a PT cruiser. Come on.

The house we stayed in.




Four score and seven years ago...




Washington Monument

Logan was so excited to get his picture taken with the Colbert portait of a portait of a portrait.

The puffy shirt!

We are so intellectual


Plagiarism?

Van Gogh

IMAX 3D!

The Constitution

Modern art. I don't get it either.

Air and Space Museum

The Capital Building

David and Korina took us to dinner in Annapolis. It was a cute little town. We ate along the harbor.



The changing of the guard at Arlington





The White House where we exchanged some thoughts with Obama


Thanks David and Korina!




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Sunday, April 12, 2009

Easter and other happenings

Here is the latest:

Easter was great (or as my preschool kids call it "Chickley day"). At preschool we did all sorts of Eastery events. We painted eggs, made bunny ears, and had an egg hunt. Logan and I didn't do much- Logan is preparing for the LSAT and finishing projects at school. The weird glowing picture is one of those projects. We did have a nice Easter dinner though and made our rats go on a mini egg hunt. Seidi had her baby on April 4th. Hooray!


This is Logan's project. Finally a success. He put jellyfish genes into yeast cells to make them glow green. Big deal right?






Little Charlie, or as I shall call him- Charles in Charge.