Vacation day #3
HC and I went to different museums today. (You can't swing a dead cat in DC and not hit a museum.) I went to the Air & Space Museum + the Annex. HC went to the Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn, and the sculpture garden.I've always been facinated with military aircraft and spacecraft so the Air & Space Museum really let me get my fix. I got to see some of my favorite aircraft and spacecraft. (The P-51 Mustang, P-38 Lightning, P-40 Warhawk, X-15, SR-71 Blackbird, Spitfire, Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo capsules, and some really cool lifting bodies) Lifting bodies: Remember the TV show the 6 Million Dollar Man? In the intro to the show they show a spacecraft wrecking in the desert. The craft wrecking was a lifting body.
Dinner was at McCormick & Schmick’s. I know it's a chain but they do a good job.
posted by ChowderHead @ 9/05/2006 06:49:00 PM
3 Comments:
Oh my gosh! I love the Hirshhorn!
HC, do they still have the room with the huge screens showing black tops spinning and colliding with each other? I loved that room!
I found Air & Space fascinating, too, especially because I went during the big Star Trek exhibit.
I have friends who live in DC. They've been after us for a while to go visit...
PW: You should go. It's a good time.
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