Washington DC

Hi from Erin! We are now in Washington DC. There is a lot to see and do. I don’t think that we could see everything here. It would be impossible. We have gone to a lot of places like the Air and Space Museum. It was very neat. There were a lot of things to see. We saw the first rocket to go to the moon. They had it in a plastic thing so you could not take pieces of it home. We rode Air Force plane simulators. They were fun. You would feel like you were in an actual plane. You could go upside-down and sideways. It was the most amazing thing ever. You could get seasick.

There were a lot of facts on World War 2 and all the monuments. We also went to the spy museum. That was really good. We got an under cover name that a spy had actually used. They showed how to pick locks and what kind of gadgets they used, like the shoe phone. They also had the brief case recorder and the tie camera. They had a American Seal carved out of wood for a senator, given to him by Russian school children. It had been bugged and the Senator didn't know it. It sat in the senator's office for 32 years. This happened in the 1940’s.

We went in the Capital building when the 700$ billion bail out was happening. We watched our taxes burn with the helicopters that carry the president places. The helicopters have to fly right above the river because they can not fly near the near the airport on one side of the river. So they fly down the river right over our boat. They have to fly below 500 feet, so they are very loud. Nice wake up call though. I guess that the president likes to do his work early. We went to the Natural History Museum today; we got to see some beautiful gems, diamonds, and the new ocean exhibit. We also saw the butterfly exhibit. A butterfly landed on my hat and would not get off so I named her Kelly.
Now going back about a week, we were in Baltimore, Maryland. That was a really neat place. We went to the Aquarium. It was huge. We saw the dolphin show. The dolphins were amazing they could do so many tricks. They had a lot of fish. We got to see them feed the sting rays. We got to see them feed the sharks too, that was cool.

We also met my dad’s friend, Brian and had dinner at his apartment and play Wii.

The Baltimore Harbor also had a trapeze training school in the park next to us. We watched the final exams every night to see who could do a flip from on bar to the other. It was pretty exciting. Well that all for now folks!