American History. From the Revolutionary War to the National Default. Every day is another part to history. All our wars, pop culture, that is our history. Whether it's Lincoln's hat to Dorthy's Ruby slippers, that is our American History, and it will be in the American History Museum. Catching on?
We went to these two museums on the same day, but I will name the Natural History one in this one.
Anyway, we went to both these museums yesterday, getting a fresh start at 8 and moving out at 9:30. We then went to the Smithsonian Castle, the Smithsonian's Information Center. It had a cool medieval style, and it had a funny orientation movie with Ben Stiller, who appeared in Night of the Museum 2, where the Smithsonian was featured.
We saw the grave of James Smithson, who funded the Smithsonian. He actually never saw it and never set foot in America.
We got a map of all the Smithsonians, and checked off the castle and the Air and Space. Then I looked up, and saw the domed Natural History Museum. To it's left, the American History Museum. These would be a whole lot of fun.
Walking in to the notorious Natural History Museum, we saw a great circular room with a fierce mammoth in the middle of the room. It was big too.
We got right to it, knowing we would have to go to the American History also. So, we went into the mammals section, and saw some pretty cool mammals. We saw some goats (stuffed, of course, like the mammoth), zebras, elephants, giraffes, lions, and tigers. It made me look at life a different way, seeing all those animals so close. I learned about mammals, learned about apes, and had a great, fun time. Weirdly enough though, one of the sections talked about how humans came from a rat thing. A rat? Really? I don't believe that of course, but that's what they said!
I learned three traits that separates us from other animals. I don't think of myself as an animal, but they do! Mammals have hair, inner ear, and drinks milk from mother. People have a conscience too!
After the mammals, we went to the ocean creatures part. It was really amazing, learning about seashells to whales, and seeing all the deep sea life. The deep sea life was very complex, with all the twists and turns and beautiful colors. Yellow, blue, red, green, light, dark, translucent, transparent.
One was a flat fish with blue and yellow flashes on its sides. In the middle, saw a blinking orange light that went out in all directions. I saw pictures, videos, and a reproduction of it.
Now, I ask you, how did an asteroid make all that jazz? (I'm talking about the big bang). For me, it reiterated that we have a very creative and powerful Creator.
Changing the subject, we saw whale bones, dolphin bones, and many other things. There was even a cool thing where you could control the movements of a robot jellyfish.
There was also a human origins section, which we kind of just skipped over. Then, it came to the dinos.
We walked in, and saw a trex, a rhinoceros, and bird dinos. We learned and saw dinosaur bones, and saw whole dino bones made up from dino bones that they put together. The cool thing was, they found all the bones in different places! Amazing! They had to have been really patient.
We learned of the beasts' sad downfall, but you know if they were still around life would be a lot different.
It was so spectacular to see those bones and such, to learn how they walked, roared, and hunted. I mean, the Smithsonian is the closest you can get to dinosaurs. Unless you go back in time, then you would get closer.
All in all, the Natural History Museum taught me the history of our earth, some I already knew, but most I didn't. I defintely recommend this Smithsonian Museum.
This is already very long, so please read the next blog post, about the American History Museum.
For now, goodbye.
Roar!Meow!RUFF! CHIRP! ROAR!,ME..ROAR! RUF... ROAR! CHIR...ROAR!(hey, can someone tell this guy to et someone else have a turn!)
Andrew.
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