May1, 2016 -- Smithsonian Natural History Museum

May 1, 2016 -- An outing with Case was planned for today, but it is rainy and cold.  The outdoor options are discouraging.  So we opted for the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.  Pop got a parking place right at the front door!

They have dinosaurs, after all. Well, mainly they have dinosaur bones and skeletons.  Case liked being able put his hand on and to touch the Tyrannosaurus bones.

And, they have a lot of information about fossils and how to hunt for fossils. Case probably didn't notice, but there was a lot of information designed to make the profession of archaeology sound interesting to young people.

The elephant was hard to miss, standing right there in the center of the rotunda room where you enter from the street.  All kids like elephants.

While Pop watched the rest of the dinosaur film in the IMAX theater -- it was kind of scary in places -- Case and Nana visited the Live Butterfly Pavilion.  It is reported that Case did not like having a butterfly sit on his shirt, but he thought it pretty cool that a butterfly sat on Nana for a long time.