Oh, the weather outside is frightful...

...but we still went out and enjoyed that day--the day when it finally snowed in DC. As someone who lives in Florida I only get to see snow…cones. I was not the only one, some of the students from the Mexican and Puerto Rican internship programs were also for the first time experiencing it.

And after talking with my friend Joel from PR during the week about the possibility of seeing some snow on the first Saturday of December, we both knew (although we never actually agreed) that the first one to see snow on that morning was going to call the other one. I woke up around 10ish and while it was cold and a little rainy it was not snowing, went back to my bed when…I got his called to go upstairs and experience the light snow that it had just started.

Needless to say, we enjoyed our first day of snow, took pictures and even threw snow balls at each other. They hurt! And of course we had to go to the National Mall for more snow and pictures, right guys!?!  

And while the snow was not so strong any more I had a chance to explore the National Air and Space Museum. I was awed by the number of space artifacts they have stored there. From the module that brought the Apollo 11 astronauts back home from the moon to Spaceship One. I had the theme music of the TV show “Enterprise” playing in my head the whole time….yep big Star Trek fan here.

The museum also included a large number of artifacts from WWI and WWII, both from the Pacific and European theaters. It was the section on the Japanese attack to Pearl Harbor which interested the most to a lot of us, especially since the anniversary of the attack was the next week.

The end of our adventures is near but it was good to begin the ending of this semester on that note!