WASHINGTON DC, AND COUSINS
Sorry I haven’t blogged in a while. Around four weeks ago we arrived in Manassas, Virginia where we stayed in our cousins’ house for three weeks. They live about an hour out from Washington DC, so there were LOTS of visits there. We saw a bunch of museums and historical sites there. The U.S. Capitol building, The Library of Congress, The Museum of the Bible, and more. I really enjoyed staying at our cousins’ house because there was ROOM. It was a three story house in a neighborhood.
Attractions
The Library of Congress. At first I thought that the Library of Congress would be amazing but I was thoroughly disappointed. I expected to be able to see more of it. There was only a small, probably around ten foot window, that looked into the actual “library”. There were a few exhibits like Thomas Jeffersons library and a baseball section. I liked the architecture though. Almost everything was marble, bathroom stalls were marble, sinks were marble, and almost everything else in it was marble. Sadly we didn’t get to see the Gutenburg Bible because they were upgrading the display case!😭
The Capitol Building. The Capitol building’s architecture was AMAZING! We went on a guided tour of the Capitol, which was ok. The tour covered only a small fraction of the Capitol itself. It was only like half of an hour for the whole tour which was basically touring just two of the rooms.
Museums
The Museum of the Bible. The Museum of the Bible had a lot of exhibits, but not as much information as I had expected. Also it had a couple of short movies/videos that I liked. Since we were only there for most of one day we didn’t get to see ALL of the exhibits, only the IMPORTANT ones. Over all it was pretty interesting.
The Air and Space Museum. My all time favorite museum on this trip was the Air and Space museum. Instead of going to the one in Washington DC, we went to the one in Manassas because it had more airplanes in total. My favorite airplane in there was the Lockheed Blackbird, the fastest JET plane in the world. Although my second favorite was the F-14 Tomcat, I liked them all of them almost equally.
The Museum of American History. This Museum was pretty cool but the best part of it was… The… BATMOBILE.
The COOLEST car in the world!
CREATION MUSEUM AND THE ARK ENCOUNTER.
Early last week we went to the Creation Museum. It was one of my favorite museums that we have been too so far on this trip, besides the Ark and the Air and Space Museum. It didn’t take very long to go through but it was inspiring.
The Ark was really cool. I thought there would be more animals than there were… One interesting thing that I heard in there was that all of the animals were foam. They looked like they were real but they really were foam. First of all they would cut a whole bunch of pieces and glue them together, then they would add the hair. I couldn’t believe some of the ways that they attached hair. One of the ways they did it was they would poke each hair one by one, very time consuming. Another was that they would attach sheets of hair just perfectly so that it would look natural.
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