An American Tale...

I finally had a day off work for working last Saturday, so we went to the newly re-opened American History Smithsonian Museum. We were there a few hours and still saw about half of the exhibits, but I felt we saw some important things like...The Star Spangled Banner. I am embarrassed to say I never realized it was the name of the actual flag raised in the song. You're not allowed to take pictures inside, but this cool artsy flag was outside the exhibit of the actual HUGE flag made that was hung after hours of fighting around the Baltimore Harbor in the War of 1812.We also saw the entertainment section which holds what I thought was really random things such as Dorothy's Ruby Slippers, Kermit the Frog, and Apollo Ohnos Speed Skates? It was also a smaller exhibit than I expected. We were not dissappointed by the Price of Freedom section which went through America's wars. The middle picture below is a bunch of WWII promotion posters.
Below is Tim as our Nation's Leader...we wish.
On the way back to the car we stopped in on the National Sculpture Garden. What do you think about the "sculptures" representing our nation? I thought it would have been statues of people or something, but I guess not.
And this was our view on our drive home...

Happy V-day!

We had a pretty good Valentines Day -minus the fact that I had to work (notice my tired eyes in the pictures-yes-107 hours in 13 days). Tim went to a lot of work to MAKE these chocolate truffles. He proceeded to make the super cute box, and give them to me (and some for his family) for valentines. I have a pretty amazing and talented hubby. I've realized a lot of our posts have to do with food or eating, but that is probably about right. We like food.