Lioness vs. Wilderbeast

Museum of Natural History. It was amazing, full of incredible exhibits and things, but almost everything was in a glass case (see white line down the middle of this shot) and in very dark lights, which caused the flash to run amok. If something wasn't in a case and in bad lighting, it wasn't interesting.

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Oh well. It was fun. We watched two 3D IMAX movies (Sea Monsters and Dinosaurs: Something or other). Very scary but fun, as the creatures actually got within two inches of my face (I tell you, that dino got real close! You could almost feel its breath and touch its scaly skin!)

Fun fun.



On a sour note, the team had agreed to meet at the topside of the Smithsonian Metro Station at two o clock. As mum, KMS and I had been seperate from the rest of the group (I was a good approximation of a walking, talking dead person I was so tired, so we slept in.) all day, we didn't know the time had changed to 5 o clock. We got up to the station (which was actually the wrong one, I kept saying. But does anyone listen to me? No!) and went to cross the street but were nearly run down by a Metro System police van (the walk sign said go, too!). There were tons and tons of people hanging around the station escalators talking, and about ten emergency vehicles parked all over. There was a news crew too, walking around. We hung out for a few minutes too, looking for the team (and not seeing them). Finally we asked someone what happened and they told us that someone had evidently either tried to commit suicide by touching the electric third rail or had fallen into the track.

We started back for the museum and hung out there, then grouped up with some team members and went to goof off outside while waiting. By now everyone new about the whole metro thing, and we found out a girl had actually tried to commit suicide by laying in the track. She was going to get up just as the train came and become paint on the front, but she chickened out and laid down, with just enough room under there to spare.


Anyhoo, enough death and destruction for me.