Back East — Part 3

It's amazing how you can live your whole life in a city like Washington DC and never see all the museums and sites. This visit, we took the kids to the National Building Museum. I never even knew it existed. This building used to hold the U.S. Pension offices and has some of the largest indoor columns in the world. Now its a lovely space that honors architecture and building.

We went specifically to see an exhibit by Adam Reed Tucker who created LEGO replicas of some of the world's most famous buildings. 4-year-old Sawyer was probably the only child old enough to appreciate the architecture itself. The other kids breezed through the display straight to the huge room of LEGOs where they could create their own designs.

Downstairs in the museum there is a children's room filled with all things building oriented. Arden played with a doll house. Kieran built a block tower. Sawyer organized half a dozen children in a game inside a giant playhouse.

For a minute there I thought I'd lost Sawyer and I ran around the museum in a panic. Turns out I just didn't recognize him: