Regrouping in DC

 On our 2nd full day of DC we slept in a little and then headed back down to the National Mall.  This day was mostly a museum day.  It's a bit tricky planning sometimes, because quite a few museums have timed entrances.  It's always a guessing game on how much time you'll spend in a particular museum.  Hands down our favorite museum was the Spy Museum.  I wish we could have stayed even longer.

Other museums we enjoyed: the Natural History Museum

The Air and Space Museum: Joel was in his happy place on the Space level of the museum.  We went to a show in the planetarium called Dark Universe that was really cool.

We saw a rally against the persecution of the Falon Gong by the Chinese government on our way between museums.

The National Gallery of Art: The highlight was BB getting to see a Leonardo daVinci painting, and Little Lady and I seeing all of the French Impressionist artists.  The boys started a scavenger hunt, buy we didn't have enough time to finish it.

So fun to see the original of the painting we have in our home... Monet is my favorite!

We had a really cool dinner experience as well at Ambar.  It's all tapas (small plates) from the Baltic Seas.  We tried quite a few really interesting and tasty things.  

Pretty much next door is a delicious bakery called Ted's Bulletin.  This is how Little Man felt at this point of the trip being around his family so much.  Luckily, baked goods makes it more tolerable.