2-14-09 Visit to the Corcoran

Today we went to the Corcoran Museum. It was a sunny day and not too cold - still an ear-muff day however. We got there at about 1:30. We went to see the Turner to Cezanne exhibit that just opened. We both like Impressionist art and the price of admission was worth just being able to see Renior's La Parisienne. We went to the Sunday Brunch buffet - lots of very good food - dinner and lunch for us. After brunch we looked at some more art and then walked to the National Natural History Museum. We needed the walk and it was a nice day but huge piles of snow at every intersection. Lots of trees down along Constitution Ave - at least lots of stumps and sawdust along the street. We went to the Museum store to get something for the grandboys and then up to take a quick peek at the new diamond rock on view next to the Hope Diamond. Then over to the bug and insect section and the exhibition on Forensics at Jamestown to see what happened there based on the buried bodies. Saw the skeleton of a scientist who had donated his body to the Smithsonian in 2002 - looking at his bones, I wonder what mine look like - well, I didn't wonder for long - too depressing.
Back to the Metro - took us a long time to get back to Hunington. The tracks through Braddock were closed on one side so trains could only go through one at a time. It was 7:30 before we got home. Then the challenge was to park the Rav in front of the house - there is so much snow piled up on the median between our parking street and the regular street (at least 7 feet high) that the parking street lane is very narrow and it is very hard to parallel park on the parking street. But with Sue driving and me helping watch the edges of the car, we got it done.