Church, The Fall of David, and American Indian Museum

Day 3 of the Amtrak Washington DC adventure.

Today, David wanted to go to church, so me and him visited Capitol Hills Baptist Church, home of Mark Dever. Dever is a well-known pastor and writer who I've heard speak at The Shepherd's Conference. We took a taxi up to the church, intending to walk back (1.4 miles).

Bible study was fun with just 8-10 of us sitting around discussing things. Afterward we went up to the balcony for the service. Lots of music, lots of prayer, and a pretty long sermon which I had some trouble hearing. Everything sounds “brittle” here and I've lost some bass. I've noticed this phenomenon when going to TN for Kaufman Kamp, too. But, I got thru it.

Unfortunately, on the way down from the balcony, David tripped on the stairs. He slid face-first and then somersaulted all the way down. He just has no strength or agility to stop himself. He got a pretty good sized scrape on the side of his head, a smaller scrape on the front, and a good bruise under his eye. His glasses, fortunately, were okay. I hauled him off to a corner to cry and of course there was a radiator there, so we both were roasting. That incident really took the wind out of his sails and instead of sticking around for refreshments and visiting, we had to go. I got him cleaned up a little in the bathroom and then we set off down Capitol Hill, very, very slowly. 

David is not very happy right now

David was not interested in much of anything, but we made it down off the Hill to the American Indian museum and there we found some food, including The Universal Kid's Meal of chicken strips and french fries. What the world did before chicken strips, I don't know. We chatted with two older ladies from Virginia and NYC who were very interested in the Amtrak experience. This gave David all the time he needed to work on The Universal Kid's Meal, and he does need a lot of time, eating molecules at a time like he does. But, after eating and drinking most of a flavored tea, he felt better. Oh, and on the way down the Hill, I made him eat ½ of a Clif bar. 

He's a little happier now

We toured the Indian Museum and by the end, he was doing okay again. It's an interesting and new museum and we enjoyed it. Afterward, we hit the Air/Space museum again and picked up a few small gifts. Back at the hotel for the evening, we're just relaxing and planning on Air/Space again tomorrow and then Natural History on Tues. Wednesday we head home!