Aimée, you have to walk like miles to see all the museum-y stuff on the Mall of the Americas. You might want to identify high points you can't pass up beforehand.
Yeah. Logic.
Shouldn't you be resting and stuff, a woman in your condition?
Pfft. Least I can ride a bike.
AIR AND SPACE! AIR AND SPACE!
Y'all can hang with pandas and fine art and whatEVer...
AIR AND SPACE!! AIR AND SPACE!!
WWOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!
I'm not too interested in the zoo. Zoos tend to freak me out a little. (It's one of those things where, although I know and mentally understand all the conservation arguments and everything, I still have a bit of an, "Animals in cages! Free them!" reaction emotionally.)
Smithsonian museums, on the other hand, are amazingly cool. And I haven't been to any of them in the whole nine months I've lived in DC. Must rememdy this.
I haven't seen it in three-plus decades and I'm betting it's changed a bit.
There are more Starbucks.
Lyra Jane, I sent an email back. Thanks!
I want to go to the Air and Space too, and to see the diamonds, and the first ladies' gowns, if that is still around.
There's the Insect Zoo -- excuse me, the
Orkin
Insect Zoo which is in the Natural History museum. Nearly all of them safely behind glass except for a few slow-moving stick insects and so on that the staff will carefully exhibit, which is good for a person like me who is fascinated by them but
never under any circumstances
wants a body part to risk coming into contact with one.
As I've said before, I'm in for a Zoo trip. I haven't been there in a couple
of years(Yeah, I'm a native. I'm also overscheduled.)
I want to go to the Air and Space too, and to see the diamonds, and the first ladies' gowns, if that is still around.
FYI, that's three different museums (A&S, Natural History, and American History)
Yeah. It's all kinds of spread out.