November 14
Still getting crazy on our last day in town . . .
[You gotta be crazy to eat lunch in a museum restaurant . . . ]
[A T-Rex exhibit was the new thing at the National Museum of Natural History (though the one here wasn’t it) . . . ]
[This wasn’t either. This is a Portuguese man o’ war – though it isn’t necessarily from Portugal, is definitely not a man, and is more into peace than war . . . ]
[Here’s the previously noted “flying” whale. Can you guess. I’m saying it’s a northern right whale . . . ]
[The hall of great creatures . . . ]
[And here’s the new T-Rex exhibit . . . ]
[Snacking on a Triceratops . . . ]
[Not a giraffe . . . ]
[Also not a giraffe . . . ]
[Gretch with the T-Rex . . . ]
[Charles Darwin, whose ideas have led to a record number of lawsuits and confused school and religious leaders throughout the country for years . . . ]
[Proof of evolution from this photo – I used to have hair . . . ]
[Leaving the museum on the Constitution Avenue side . . . ]
[Past a close relative of my interior friend . . . ]
[Approaching the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture . . . ]
[On the grounds of the Washington Monument, this was totally new for the Super and me . . . ]
[Ah, the good ole days of traffic on Constitution Avenue . . . ]
[Ken and Jeanne leading the way to the entrance. They had spent a short time here earlier when the Super and I were to up to something nefarious . . . ]
[And we’re in . . . ]
[Gretch lives in D.C. and of course had been here previously . . . ]
[The importance of King Cotton in our history . . . ]
[The Gates Concourse Atrium hard by the Winfrey Theater . . . ]
[Saying our final goodbyes to Gretch . . . ]
[And Gretch says goodbye to us . . . ]
[We don’t have any of these in Alex? They help extend the long Minnesota goodbye . . . ]
[Back outside – lovely evening . . . ]
[Hiking to our subway stop . . . ]
[Which just happened to be adjacent to EPA . . . ]
[Which just happens to be across the street from Trump International . . . ]
[Later we joined some old friends for dinner in Crystal City, at Jaleo to be specific . . . ]
[The 3 guys lined up on the right, l – r: Bill, Greg Foote, and me. The 3 of us worked together at DOL (though Greg moved over to EPA after a few years) and were teammates with the DOL Mavericks. I don’t think I’d seen Greg in over 30 years . . . ]
[And here we are with the aforementioned Mavericks after another championship. We 3 are vertically stacked 1, 2, 3 on the left side of the photo . . . ]
[Meanwhile, back at Jaleo, Jeanne and Ken fit in nicely with our friends at the end of the table . . . ]
[I guess the gals and the guys each had their own side of the table . . . ]
[Sometimes stuff just happens . . . ]
[A really good shot of Anne and the Super, if I do say so myself . . . ]
[Greg’s wife Robin with Jeanne . . . ]
[Well, I had seen him in a long time . . . ]
[Should have taken this with a real camera . . . ]
[And wrapping up the D.C. trip . . . ]
[With our final goodbyes . . . ]
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Up Next: Finally back to the Norway cruise?
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