Post by Dr. John

Recently, we spent a few days in Washington, DC. Mother Hen attended a nursing conference and my youngest son and me, on the first day, visited the sites on the Mall. Morning started with the National Aquarium located on 14^th St. and Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House. Although our map suggested it occupied a large building, we found it to be a small area in the basement. As the nation's first aquarium, it can be described as antique. However, the tanks are well cared for and represent various ocean ecologies found off of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and a few fresh-water locations such as the Amazon basin.