Day 6 - Carolina in My Mind

Today we woke up to the sound of the ever so familiar sound of snow-plows and the scraping of metal shovels clearing snow from the walkways of the apartment complex we were
staying at. My initial instinct was, “You’ve got to be kidding me!” I thought I was going to have a full winter season without snow. I guess since we narrowly escaped it’s coming right when we left New England on Monday, we were just meant to cross paths with snow on our way down South.

We drove our car across the boarder to Alexandria, VA and took the Metro back into D.C. We had some museums that we still needed to check off our sight seeing lists. The first one on our list was the Smithsonian Museum of Art. It was huge and the paintings were great. They had one painting by Leonard da Vinci, which was the only painting by him in the Western Hemisphere. I thought that was pretty cool. We skipped a lot of exhibits in that museum because we were much more excited about the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. This one was the one with all the animals and dinosaur bones on display. The great thing about this museum is the atmosphere. I could have taken a nap in the art museum, but all the little kids who were with their parents were so excited about seeing all of the animals and bones that you could help but have fun while looking at the exhibits.

We added one person to our group when our friend Kristen, who we all worked with at the Chatham Candy Manor and a current student at Georgetown University, met up with us in the Museum of Art. She stuck with us and became somewhat of an unofficial tour guide telling us about cool facts about the National Mall in the Summer time. Apparently they host a bunch of free musical concerts. We walked around for a bit but eventually had to get moving onto our next destination.

We are staying at our friend Kim Shapper’s home in Wake Forest, NC. She is also a mutual friend that we all have worked with at the Candy Manor. She says she’s excited to have us stay with her and apparently so is her mom. It’s always a good sign when a mom is excited to host people over, although it could just be a polite front like most moms do. We’ll just have to see what comes of it!

Aramis

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