As my last official day off of work this past Friday was pretty nice. Burke also had off work that day so we got to spend it together. The plan was to visit the National Archives and the National Museum of Natural History again (to see what we didn't see the first time we visited). It seemed like a good plan, we left early in the morning so as to avoid the heat of the afternoon. We arrived at the National Mall and began to walk to the National Archives, we walked through the butterfly habitat garden, which was really pretty but lacking butterflies, probably because it was so hot and humid. We reached the outside of the National Archives and saw a line longer than any I have seen since our arrival here, we debated whether we wanted to wait in that line and decided against it, so I took a photo of the outside of the building, and we plan to get over there to go inside some other time.
The Natural History Museum was amazing as it always is, that could be the history major talking, haha. We explored the upper floors, including the gemstone exhibit, and Burke saw the Hope Diamond for the first time. We then went through a photography exhibit on nature, and the photographs were amazing. After that we went back in time to a time before humans and explored both the ocean life and the creatures of the land. It was pretty interesting. We also walked through an area devoted to butterflies, they even had a butterfly garden/tent thing you could enter but we did not want to pay the $7 per person to go inside, so we just looked into the window to see the butterflies. After that we headed back downstairs and made our way home to the RAF where an afternoon of video games, movies and homework were waiting.
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