Perfect springtime activities for children in the Catskills and Hudson Valley.
Last weekend my family took a trip to Washington DC to see all the monuments and go the Smithsonian Museum of Art and the Native American Museum. It was great! My husband and I totally enjoyed it and my 10-year-old daughter only became antsy when I marveled at the Dutch Masters for too long and then got sucked into an opera concert rehearsal we happened to stumble upon 3 minutes later.
(a little F.D.R. wisdom from our trip - pertinent to an article about kids outdoors!)
Her waning enthusiasm reminded me of the last time I had visited DC. I was 12 years old.
- I remember being miserable.
- I remember being HOT.
- I remember being incensed