Observations for today:

1. 5:45 am is much too early to be awake on vacation. This should be illegal.
2. Conversation in our car as we enter DC:
   Maia: “There’s the Jefferson Memorial!”
   Me: “You’ve never been here before. How did you know what the Jefferson Memorial looks like?”
   Maia (smugly): “Cause I know some stuff.”
3. It is windy and COLD!
4. First stop, White House. Yup, looks just like the pictures.
5. “Ooh, look, there are businessmen!” says Maia as we pass a trio of men in business suits pulling their suitcases. Hilarious that she thinks that’s a tourist attraction.
6. Constant refrain that the kids (and my sister, who started them on it) will not stop repeating in drawn out voices as we enter every crosswalk: “Does everybody have their exit buddy?” Bonus points if you can name the movie reference.
7. Next stop: Smithsonian. We made it to both the Museum of American History and Museum of Natural History today. Both are more crowded than Disney. Ugh.
8. I’m a little unsettled that the exhibits at the Museum of Natural History give no credit to God.
9. I totally wish my family would quit rushing me. They’re complaining that I’m (gasp!) actually reading the displays, but I’m here to learn stuff.
10. My feet hurt (again). I have no stamina. Tomorrow, I vote for the trolley tour.