Hillwood Estate, near Washington DC
This was an estate of Mrs. Post, who inherited a large fortune from a cereal business. She was really into Russian imperial antiques (paintings of tsars, Faberge eggs, etc).
On the staircase, that's a portrait of Catherine the Great.
This clock in the shape of an African woman shows time with her eyes (the digits for hour and minute are in each of the eyes)
On the grand staircase of the house, behind a wall of Russian tsar portraits
Air and Space Museum - Udvar-Hazy Center (near the Washington Dulles airport)
Amazingly, this was open on Thanksgiving day (for which we give many thanks!).
Dress code: airplane-casual.
Shuttle Discovery
Space essentials, like coffee, M&M's chocolates, borscht soup and makeup
The museum staff gave Sam an activity worksheet with pictures of airplanes. He had to find those planes in the museum and then read the name of the plane on the description plaque, and find out if it contained a name of an animal or bird (for example, black hawk). He then had to write those down on this sheet and hand in the completed sheet at the museum reception desk, for which he proudly received stamps and stickers.
A recreation of an traffic-control tower, where you can watch airplanes land and hear the communications between the planes and air traffic controllers at Dulles Airport nearby
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