Pirates!

The National Geographic Museum is located in Washington, DC.  Dave used to work just around the corner from it and often walked over for lunch to see what they had on display, or sit in their little garden to eat.  Living this close to DC is pretty darn cool when we actually take advantage of it.  When we heard that the Museum was having a free Pirate Family weekend, we had to go check it out.

 We got there right as it opened and for about 30 minutes had the place mostly to ourselves.  That was perfect because we were able to do a bunch of the crafts and activities before the serious crowds, and thus line, arrived.  We made pirate banners, pirate ships, telescopes and treasure maps.  Hilde got her arm "tattooed" and Phinn was in total and complete heaven.

Outside they had some paid actors doing pirate swordfights and other acts.  One guy was clearly a big time body builder, I dared Dave to pick a fight with him...

We left right around lunchtime and found Nando's!  We fell in love with place in England, and it was the first time we saw one here in the States.  It wasn't quite as good as England, but it was fun.  The kids were super excited to go.

The only downside to the whole trip was that we got a parking ticket even though we were parked legally, as far as we knew (and we took pictures).  I am fighting the ticket, wish me luck!