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| Flat Stanley begins his adventure in the VolunteerNow offices. Workplace of Grace Tatum's cousin Lisa Tatum. She helps volunteers help after disasters occur. |
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| A sign outside the office. You may notice that Flat Stanley is wearing a cowboy hat, cowboy boots, a long sleeved shirt with a design that looks like the state flag for Texas, denim jeans and a shiny belt buckle. This is a very Texas outfit. |
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| This is the Plaza of the Americas in Downtown Dallas. |
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| Flat Stanley had barbecue from Dickey's for dinner. Texas loves barbecue, just like Oklahoma. |
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| A quick trip to the yoga studio in Dallas before heading to Washington, DC. |
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| Getting ready to leave Dallas, Texas for Washington, DC. Flying on Southwest Airlines, our favorite. We picked a nice middle seat for Flat Stanley. |
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| Our hotel room in Washington, the Melrose hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. |
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| Beginning our tour of DC with a beautiful flower sculpture at the Federal Triangle Metro stop. |
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| Outside the National Archives building. Loving the columns and the statues on the top. |
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| At the Smithsonian Museum of American History. Flat Stanley really liked the $100,000 bill in this display case. |
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| An awesome statue in the American History Museum of George Washington. This is Lisa's favorite statue in Washington. |
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| The flag that inspired the writing of the Star Spangled banner is at the American History Museum. We could not take pictures of the flag itself sing the rules said we could not. This is the entrance to that hall. |
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| A triceratops skull outside of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. |
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| A statue of a rabbit on a rock outside of the Natural History Museum. We thought it was a funny statue. |
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| Amor means love in French. We love this statue. |
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| We were too early for the Cherry Blossom festival, but the tress in DC just started blooming. The weather was perfect while we were there. |
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| We traveled to the National Portrait Gallery to see the paintings and statues. This is a statue of Tecumseh. |
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| A painting of Sequoyah who wrote the Cherokee alphabet. |
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| If you look closely at this picture from the National Portrait Gallery you will see license plates from all 50 states and the letter spell out the preamble of the Constitution of the United States. |
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| Flat Stanley thought this unfinished picture of George Washington needed to be shared. |
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| President Kennedy from the National Portrait Gallery. |
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| The next day at the Vietnam Wall memorial. |
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| A statue of soldiers from the Vietnam war. |
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| The Washington monument and reflecting pool. |
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| Outside the Lincoln Memorial, this can be found on the back of most pennies. |
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| Inside the Lincoln Memorial. This statue of Abraham Lincoln is huge. |
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| We thought this memorial of soldiers from the Korean War was very interesting. Grace and Lisa's grandfather Leonard Carl Tatum fought in this war. |
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| Riding on the Washington, DC metro, the public transportation system that people use there. |
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| We made the trip inside the National Archives and saw the real Declaration of Independence and Constitution. We were not allowed to take pictures of the real thing, but this was just outside the hall on the wall. |
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| If you saw the movie Night at the Museum, you will recognize this statue from Easter Island, in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. |
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| This Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton was also a character in the Night at the Museum movie. |
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| Stopped by the White House for a bit. Sorry for the blurry picture. It was the end of a very long day. |
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| The Smithsonian castle. It looks like a real castle. |
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| This is a lunar module at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Flat Stanley thinks he might want to be an astronaut. |
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| A live picture of the sun in the Air and Space museum. |
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| Rockets at the Air and Space Museum. |
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| The real wright Brothers plane at the Air and Space museum. |
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| A totem pole at the National Museum of the American Indian. |
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| A birch bark canoe at the National Museum of the American Indian. |
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| The flag of the Cherokee Indian tribe at the American Indian Museum. |
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| Wampum belts at the American Indian Museum. |
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| A display for the Lenape Treaty, the tribe of both Lisa and Grace. We thought it was cool to see our family history at a museum. |
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| Last stop in DC, the National Gallery of Art. This is a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. |
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| One last picture from the National Gallery of Art. |
