Fun at the Museum

At the beginning of every new semester Zach and I get this big burst of ambitious energy. Not only are we going to rock our studies, oh no. We are going to be universally awesome. Why, this time we will regularly go out and do all the fantastic and frequently free things this great city has to offer. We are going to live the life.

Which usually just means we go to a museum some random Saturday and call it good until next semester. For this semster's tri-annual museum trip we decided to try and finish the Smithsonian American history museum. Because museums in general are cool (to us) and we'd only managed to get 1/3 of the way through when we swung by last year.

It was generally fun. Surprisingly enough, I really loved the America on the water exhibit. Boats are surprisingly cool, and all the little models and old boat things were kind of fun. Plus, there were sea shanties on continuous loop that we were still singing to each other long after we went home. Sea shanties are fun.

Zach, by all appearances, liked the exhibit too. That, or he just really enjoyed putting his history masters degree to good use. Everywhere we turned he had some cool little historical episode or factual tidbit to share. It seemed really fun. So, when I saw something that sparked one of my own tidbits of knowledge at the little display of Native American boats and fishing equipment, I just had to speak up.

"Zach! That salmon hook was made by the Quilette, who, as Twilight teaches us, could also turn into werewolves!"

So glad we could share our knowledge with one another.