Oct 11th. I get up after attempting to sleep in (Not easy in Dorm rooms). And head out on a slightly cooler day to see some of the Museum's. All of the ones part of the Smithsonian Institute are free which is sweet, but first I head to the International Spy Museum. This features lots of cool spying gadgets and stories from various stages of history. Unfortunately, the place is packed with school kids who are taking over everything and not letting me play with some of the toys :-(I carry on regardless and see some of the exhibits including some cool things from the Cold War, the museum actually isn't really for kids apart from the 1st section of gadgets - The rest of it is mainly reading and watching stuff. After this, I head to the National History Museum which has some cool exhibits - Dinosaurs and stuffed wild animals - although I prefer to see animals live and in the wild, there were some pretty rare ones there. After this I went to the Air and Space Museum which has old Rockets, Lunar Landers and historic planes to see as well as lots of interesting information on the Space Race and the birth of flight itself. These 2 museums are the most popular ones here and it is easy to see why - Admission is free too - result!
Pictures (Left) - The obligatory T-Rex, (Right) - Rockets, (Bottom) - The Wright Brothers plane
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