"Mom, do you have Barack Obama's phone number?"

Me: "No, honey, you can't just call the President."

Nia: "Well, do you have his address? Maybe we can just stop by."


And so we did....

More pictures from the butterfly garden...

The Butterfly Garden -National Museum of National History

A butterfly landed on my head but my mom had already put the camera away.

Big Bones!!! -National Museum of Natural History

I couldn't wait to see the dinosaur bones!!!

More pictures for the National Museum of Natural History -Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. -The Smithsonian

The National Museum of Natural History





That's giant squid!!!

Boone Hall Plantation -Chalreston, SC

These are pictures of some of the crafts that the slaves made and some toys that the children played with. The last picture is a replica of a slave garden. In the second to last picture I was checking out some Carolina Gold Rice. Rice wasn't a cash crop at Boone Hall but it was grown for the masters and slaves to eat.

Boone Hall Plantation -Chalreston, SC

These are real slave cabins, not replicas. The slaves made bricks at Boone Hall Plantation and they used the ones that weren't good enough to sell to make themselves houses. But, you had to be a highly skilled slave in order to have a brick house. Most of the slaves lived in wood houses that were poorly built. There were once 293 slaves that lived on this plantation.

Boone Hall Plantation -Chalreston, SC

The big house and random pics of the grounds -mom.

150 year old Blacksmith Shop -Charleston, SC

When we were on our Gullah tour we stopped at the home and workshop of a very famous blacksmith. His name is Phillip Simmons and his work is very famous. My mom said that we will be able to see some of it in the Smithsonian Museum of African Art when we go to Washington, D.C. His work can also be seen all over Charleston.

http://www.philipsimmons.us/aboutsimmons.html

Charleston, SC -The Gullah Tour

We didn't take very many pictures because we were on a tour bus. Here a couple of pictures but I can't remember what they are of. The other pictures are replicas of slave badges. If the slaves were caught alone anywhere in the city they had to show their badges so that the police knew who their owners were. If a slave was caught without a badge he would have serious consequences.

Charleston, South Carolina

On our first night in Charleston we went to visit my friend Jesse. His mom is so cool. We gathered pine cones and helped her build a fire. Then we had bbq chicken and roasted marshmallow. It was so much fun.