Sunday, February 8, 2009

Sam and Kyung's Day o' Fun

Sam and I haven't really gone anywhere in a while so yesterday we decided to go into DC to check out the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. We arrived at 2pm and stayed until 5:30pm when they closed. It's not really early, but that's just us. Besides, I think that I would have been worn out otherwise. Here are some pics of the creatures we met:

This is Phoenix the Right Whale, right because she was easy to hunt when whales were hunted. She ate near the surface and floated when dead. I'm just repeating what I read.
Can you spot Sam?

















Sam liked the T. Rex, and I liked the stegosauraus.













There was a photography award gallery. This one is of a waterfall. The photographer saw in the upper right hand part of the the photo the head of Neptune, the Sea God. It's in white with eyes, nose, and mouth.

I also liked the baby polar bears. The photographer actually crawled into the den to take the picture while the mother was tranquilized for a health examination.

Sam liked the penguin and sea otters. We also met Minister Cox, the real mummy.

4 comments:

caffeinequeen said...

I really like the picture of the waterfall - it's gorgeous! Glad you two went out and had such fun!

WellRocMiHop said...

i know. too bad my flash showed up on it though.

Gracie said...

Awww, it's good to see you and Sam de-stressing a bit. James and I both need to find some time to have a day o' fun ourselves! It's been kinda stressful lately. I love the picture of the polar bears. Good thing that the mother didn't come out of her tranquilized state. Yikes.
Love, Grace

WellRocMiHop said...

I just realized that if you click on the pictures, they blow up really big! My head looks huge! If you click, just look at the eyebrows.