The courtyard of the Navy Memorial features a huge world map. Jim is standing over there right under the great lakes. While I was looking at Europe Megan came dancing over the Atlantic and hopped onto Ireland saying "Hi Grandma and Grandpa!" (My parents live in Northern Ireland.)
We got off the Metro at the Chinatown station to do a little exploring. This arch across the street is quite something, isn't it?
And here is one of the pandas at the zoo. Again, the Metro runs to within a very short walk to the zoo. It's a super public transportation system. For Jessica, who babysat our chickies, we bought a journal of handmade paper made from panda poo. Would I kid you? I guess there's a lot of undigested bamboo fiber in their poo, and some industrious Chinese folk wash it all and make it into paper. Either that or we are suckers who bought the story...and the journal. One of the chickies died. I kind of suspected she might. She had a deformed toe on each foot, and even as a tiny chicky it seemed that she was struggling a bit. The remaining five just about doubled in size while we were gone. We need to get busy and get a coop built before they outgrow their doghouse digs.
5 comments:
Now that is just gross about the Panda Poop Paper. Yuck! lol Hope your friend enjoyed it ;-)
What a wonderful trip you had and what great memories! Thanks for taking your readers along :-)
God bless!
What a fun trip. We need to get a DC trip on our schedule. We are only 5 hours away and have never gone as a family. What kind of home school family are we? hee hee
Loved your Starbucks comment about your time with your son. :)that's what it's all about.
Panda poo. I want to say, "Only in DC," but that probably wouldn't be true.
A birthing ball is just a big exercise ball she sits on. It makes her lower back feel better (less achey) and is supposed to open up her pelvic area to make birthing easier. We all fought over it while we were there. I'm thinking of getting one to sit on at my desk--they're supposed to be great for the core muscles. I'd just have a hard time going into a store and asking for a birthing ball with my wrinkles and gray hair.
Hi Eleanor,
I like your new blog look. :-) And that is very exciting about your chickens!
I was wondering if my blog had been featured on the econbusters blog? I have tried to watch for it and was wondering if I had missed it?
Thanks! :-)
Oh, I forgot! You left the comment on my blog about the Spring Cleaning link. I believe I stumbled upon that from the Old Schoolhouse Homeschool Minute! ;-)
I've been wanting to tell my readers how to get signed up for the Homeschool Minute (I just love it), but I couldn't find an easy way to tell them how and couldn't remember how I did. I didn't see a link on the Old Schoolhouse homepage. Any suggestions?
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