Current mood:

tired

National Aquarium
Today C&I took Zoe, Charlotte, and Pritha to the National Aquarium on 14th St, across from the Reagan building. We'd talked about going to Baltimore, but eventually C balked and said it was too much travel for her. So we went downtown instead. It's a pretty nice aquarium, though of course nothing like MoBA, Baltimore, or even the Zoo. But it was fun anyway. Charlotte got scared a bit of the alligator, and Zoe said "the octopus gives me the freaks." Also, on the way down, she was talking about the scary monsters in Nightmare Before Christmas, and she said, "that one monster is so scary that he can scare the brain right out of your HEAD!" Which got a lot of laughs, so then she said, "He's even so scary he can scare you out of your WHOLE BODY!" That gave Pritha the giggles.

The cashier at the Aquarium was (clearly) Ethiopian, so when I thanked her in Amharic (my newest dog trick) she asked about Charlotte. She was very nice and interested and talked to Charlotte, who was shy. Pritha volunteered that Charlotte's Ethiopian name was Kasech, which I'd never heard.

After the Aq we walked to the Washington Monument, and I took pix of the girls. They ran around and shrieked like banshees. When we got to the other side, I pointed to the Lincoln Monument and asked the girls what it was. Zoe leaped up and volunteered, "It's Hamraham Lincoln!" Which again got Pritha giggling and talking about "Hammerhead Lincoln". A great idea for a comic--or the name of a band.

We had great fun today. But as we got the girls home at 7:15, Jenny has to feed them and get them into bed quick.

Tomorrow is Zoe's first day of Kindergarten! OMG she'll be leaving home before I know it. :{(