This is the view from our apartment. It was a rainy day, but we like it.
Stephen and I at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, probably my favorite museum so far.
One of the many dinosaurs at the museum.
Autumn in Maryland/DC is great! Why? Because it actually exists for more than 2 weeks. We had one week where the temperature was somewhere in the 40s, but as far as I know it's never been lower than that. 50s and 60s every week. I've discovered that I have a summer and winter wardrobe, and nothing in between.
I love this picture :)
We turned a corner and suddenly it was Chinatown!
There was even Chinese on the Chipotle sign. We tried really hard to find a uniquely DC restaurant, but ended up at Ruby Tuesday instead. Oh well, it was delicious!
This van does not seem like a very discreet vehicle for the FBI.
Emptying our wallets to the IRS.
Me and Stephen at the Washington Monument. I wish the camera would have been able to take some good shots of the monument and also of the Lincoln monument in the distance. I highly recommend seeing the monuments at night, they're beautiful.
I went to a free teacher preview of an ice sculpture exhibit. It took over 2 million pounds of ice to construct. The best part was going down some slides made of ice, but my camera stopped working partway through so I didn't get a picture.
Lincoln himself.
The penguins were my favorite.
By the time my camera worked again (it may have had something to do with the 9 degree temperature... brrrr!), the only sculpture left was the nativity! I was so happy to see that the finale was focused on the true reason for the season.
On Saturday we went to the Silver Spring Thanksgiving Parade. It was just a short walk away for us and we really enjoyed it. No one started showing up until 30 minutes before the parade started, a welcome change from Provo's Freedom Festival parade where we had to camp out at like 5 am. We are chomping on cookies with a family from our ward.
"Our beloved Redskins" marching band. Funny story: One day Steve was at an elementary school visit for his internship at DC Public Schools. They had a first or second grader doing the announcements and one of them went something like this: "Tonight our beloved Redskins will be playing the so-and-sos. Go Redskins!" We were laughing for days, it was too cute.
This Darth Vader balloon was the highlight for the little boys of the family we went with.
Not much to say... we had fun!
This bookmobile reminded me of my Mom, I think she and her siblings used a bookmobile when they grew up in rural Utah. I was surprised this one still worked, does that mean they use it?
We loved all the Central/South American dancing groups. We were surprised there were so many in the area!
Last but not least, my favorite man in front of a fire engine. He said he started a post the other day about his awesome internship, but deleted it because it was too boring. I disagree! Maybe I can convince him to post something soon. In the meantime, we will be enjoying Thanksgiving!! Only 2 more days and we are off to see family!
