Museum of Art, Museum of the Bible, National Museum of Health and Medicine, and Georgetown

 One Saturday in February, we visited two very different museums: the Museum of Art, and the museum of the Bible.  Beth Clark met us at the art museum. She has visited Europe and seen a lot of  art, and we enjoyed her.  As we exited through the sculpture garden, a young man struck up a conversation with us to get her phone number.  (Fortunately, the ensuing phone calls and texts did not result in a romance!) 

We met our friends, Elder Gilbert and Sister Deanna Pond from Meridian at the Museum of the Bible and saw the wide range of displays about religious freedom, the history of and art of the Bible, Jesus Christ, and so on. We took a virtual tour of the Holy Land with headsets. A favorite display was a village that resembled Nazareth at the time of Christ, complete with a rabbi who talked about how he and his townspeople pushed Jesus out when He declared His doctrine.

One Saturday in July when we had visited the temple area, we stopped at the nearby National Museum of Health and Medicine, founded during the Civil War. It displays preserved amputated limbs, examples of early surgical instruments, etc. There is a tiny piece of Lincoln's skull from his autopsy.  (No photo for this museum, thankfully.) 

When we visited the Barlow Center with our senior missionary friends, in July, they took us to the top of their high-rise and we viewed Georgetown. We could see the Watergate Hotel.  We walked through Georgetown and ate at an upscale Italian Restaurant.