[DopeyGirl]

Emilie is big into using the computer kiosks in museums. On this one, I believe she was learning about pegmatites.


Discovering the wonder that is paper clips sticking to magnetite.


Hidden Mickey?


This shows the earthquakes (no matter how small) that occurred just since that morning.


Emilie came around the corner and immediately said “Hey, dum-dum! You give me gum-gum!” She has seen Night at the Museum entirely too many times.

We stopped touring for a short time around 1:15 or so and headed to the Atrium Café to grab something for lunch (and boy, was it BUSY down there!). They had a really interesting mix of choices as far as food went . . . everything from BBQ to sandwiches to burgers and salads. Mike got a ginormous turkey sandwich, I got a burger and Emilie chose chicken strips. It was all OK . . . not the best, but not the worst food court food ever.

Once our lunch was gone, we headed back out into the museum to do the little bit of touring we had left.












I had to giggle after I saw this pic in larger form earlier. I just noticed that it looks like the hippo is about to eat that guy’s head behind him.










“Maybe the dingo ate your baby?”


The koala says “EXIT”. (by sheer accident . . . and bad angling in the glass . . . we got the exit sign right over the koala’s mouth. )


Emilie explains the theory of evolution?


Looking out the window in the insectarium area toward the Washington Monument


The “big elephant” from the second floor balconies






Emilie thought it was pretty cool (although, a bit grossed out) to see an ACTUAL mummy.

We finished seeing everything by around 3:45pm and headed out of the museum.


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