Quick trip to DC

We only went to one museum, The National Museum of Natural History. Very cool. It wasn't until last night that my mom told me she thinks that is where Night of the Museum was filmed. I haven't checked that out for facts yet but if it's true, it would explain why I swear there were not hundreds, but thousands I swear, easy there were two thousand people there. Easy. BUT the exhibits were fabulous. I will share some pix soon. Obviously it was spring break so that accounts for the crowds but all I'm saying is, wow, there were a LOT of people in that museum. And it's an older museum so older/smaller elevators and the first elevator we went on (since we had the stroller with the Littlest happily in it) there was no lie, an 85 year old man, sitting in a handicapped type chair (maybe it wasn't but it seemed like his own special chair at least) that took up half the small elevator and we were first on and I knew there was no way anyone besides us, the man, his chair, and our stroller would fit on that elevator. Uh... I think two other families got on AFTER us and I was thinking, this is some kind of joke, right? People were all pushing on me, slammin' in there, jammin' in there, they were gettin' on that dang elevator. The old man----it wasn't like he had to pulley us up like a real old timey elevator, all he had to do was PUSH THE BUTTONS. There are only 3 floors. Sayin. Just sayin. I could have pushed the button without him. BUT my husband said that he was near retirement and they had to put him somewhere and so there he was. In our very small elevator. I didn't say a word. No. I was good. Never said a word till later that night, he and I were trying to get the baby down in the hotel room and blah blah blah, the first night he went down like a good boy right in the playpen. We were on night #2 and he was hip to our game and wasn't having it. Because he was fighting sleep, I just laid him in the bed right next to me and he was all, "w'has this mamma?" never really been in the bed for sleeping purposes with us. So he was all up in my stuff, laying on top of me, didn't know what to do with himself and there goes Ivan, bringing up the old man in the very small elevator and I could not hold it in. I thought that I was the only warped and twisted person in our loving group of four. Uh uh. He was just waiting. For the right time. When I was most vulnerable. He KNOWS I cannot control my laughter when something hits my funny bone. Especially when it's something ludicrous like that. When he brought that up with the same thinking I had, I was done. Maybe you had to be there, I don't know. I laughed so hard, even right now, today, my stomach muscles hurt. And the baby kept saying (whilst he was laying all over me or jammed up in my neck), "noise, nap" meaning, it's too noisy, I'm trying to go to sleep. And I kept laughing. Oh I laughed. And the baby was rising and falling with my every breath; probably thinking I was nuTEE. All from the old man in the tiny elevator. And just how many people did he think could fit in there with HIM in there? And how many more COULD have fit in there if he were not there? Hmmmm..

Great museum. I'll check it out again in August if we can. Very worth it. Also want to visit the National Archives, the American Indian Museum and hopefully, the National Museum of American History will be re opened by then. Right now, it's being renovated. We'll see.

Phew. Always an adventure with us. And can I tell you it SNOWED while we were there? Totally ruined our plans for going to another museum. Was NOT going to take the baby out in that frigid cold in a stroller to stand in a line for a museum. Snowing in April on the East Coast. I do believe we will have a very active Hurricane season this year like they say. Clearly anythings possible. Clearly.

-J