Walking in Washington (2)

Walking on from the National Botanic Garden yesterday - where we enjoyed seeing some lovely orchids as well as the Spring flowers -  we headed on down the National Mall and made a flying (!) visit to the Air and Space Museum.

There are some amazing exhibits there, including the X15 - a NASA research plane..

The lunar landing module ..

..and some early rockets..

Moving on again (the beauty of the Smithsonian museums is that because they are admission free you can visit briefly and call in again another day), we detoured for a very quick look at the Sculpture Garden in front of the Hirshhorn Museum..

We then visited Smithsonian Castle via the Enid Haupt garden - not at its best at this time of year, rather devoid of colour, except for this spectacular fountain..

..and a rather exotic ornamental cabbage patch ..

We made one final stop to see an Orchid Exhibition at the Natural History Museum and I will include the photos tomorrow.

Tonight we are sitting in front of the fire with a glass of wine - our first since December as we had a 'dry' January (which was much easier than we anticipated!).  This means that we are not actually watching the Superbowl but we did see the puppy prediction before the start..

This gaggle of puppies was released to enjoy two bowls of kibble marked with the team names to choose the predicted winner and the most popular was..

Which I think only proves that Labrador puppies are very cute indeed!