Washington DC

Ms. Emma goes to Washington!
Our trio has enjoyed four days in our nation's capital taking in many of the amazing sites. It has been very cool showing Emma many important aspects of our country's history. She really enjoyed getting to see the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. In addition, she was blown away by the fact that her Papaw actually worked in the Capitol building for 20 years - 'that's a long time!' We had a fabulous time visiting monuments and museums - Emma really enjoyed the Natural History mueseum (Dinosaurs!!) and the National Gallery of Art, where she got to see 'Marie' - Degas' Little Dancer. We also got to meet up with firends here and make new ones. We saw Tony -the Semester at Sea photographer from our voyage and are going to stay the next two nights in MD with Terra (the SAS Asst. Dean) and her husband Brett. We ate Ethopian food in Georgetown with one of Diana's favorite English professors, Eric Anderson, and his wife, Shelley Reid, former OSU profs who now teach at George Mason University. Wade also got to go out with Alex, Eric and Ben from OSU's School of International Studies. Alex is also one of our former Ardmore students who is fresh from a 250 day backpacking trip around the world. At our hotel, Emma made friends with six-year-old girl Nikki, who was born in Stillwater. In fact, her grandmother teaches school in Morrison -- cousins Bradley & Beth will both have her next year! The pictures above: (left) Emma doing the Capitol power pose; (right) Emma waiting to get in the National Archives. We're off to the Air & Space Museum.