July 1st: Museum of American History,

I woke up, hung around the hostel for a while, and then the Texan guy, Jay proposed that we walk to the Museum of American History together since he was going that way also. On the way there someone handed me some pamphlets trying to get us interested in some kind of religion. The Texan guy is fairly against this stuff and I'm an atheist, so once we figured out what it was, he walked back and handed it back to the lady who gave it to us. She looked very disappointed and was not very cheery at all when she said "thanks" for having received it back.

We sat down in a nice park for a few moments. Nice grass here.

The front of the building for the Museum of American History.

We went into the Museum and Jay and I decided to go separate ways since walking around a museum in a group is probably not fun and it would be better to have the independence to wander around wherever you want.

I wandered around and looked at a bunch of stuff.

Hats for the leaders of fire fighter people.

Big telescope.

pop-up book.

This is talking about a scientist who decided to investigate food, I think. He tested to see if food preservatives made any harmful impacts on people. He tested food heavily coated in preservatives on these people in the picture. He found that the preservatives were poisonous. Food manufacturers weren't happy. Independent tests were done. Results contradicted that the preservatives were poisonous, and they were allowed to keep using them.

Life vest from a titanic survivor.

They had a nice section about river boats. I liked this section.

This is a house that was going to be destroyed. Neighbours were upset by that so they contacted the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian decided to take the house and put it into their museum. This exhibit talks about the different people who lived in this house and what kind of life they had. It was quite interesting.

Upstairs they had a nice section about some of the wars that the United States has been involved in. Here is some of George Washington's clothes showing how tall he was. He was fairly tall I think.

This is a gunboat they found at the bottom of a river. It was built in 1776 and also sunk in that year.

I finished up at the museum and then headed back. Alison, the girl from Bournemouth, was very excited to go to Nando's tonight. She likes the restaurant quite a lot. So Alison, Jay and I went there. I had a chicken burger type thing and some chips. It was fairly good. This is the only Nando's in the United States!