Ok, so I am now able to connect to the internet and I'm posting a few photos from my weekend in Washington. First I went to the zoo and saw the pandas, cheetahs, elephants and lots of very cool small mammals. Here is a picture of one of the pandas, I believe it is Tian Tian and you can read more about the pandas at the link.

Giant Panda

We also went to the Natural History Museum. The rocks and minerals were beautiful and I was able to find some tourmaline from Maine.