Month: December 2016
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A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre
We have an annual holiday tradition of going to see “A Christmas Carol” (this predates our time in Washington, DC and kids, for that matter). The bonus of seeing it in DC is that the play is performed at Ford’s Theatre, leading to the kids’ worst nightmare—a cultural event AND an educational event rolled into…
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Mele Kalikimaka (Christmas in Hawaii)
Due to the fortuitous circumstance of Christmas falling on a Sunday this year, the school’s holiday break included the week before Christmas. This allowed us the rare opportunity to spend Christmas not in Washington, DC (Jim’s business being calendar year-end intensive). To no one’s surprise, the family voted to spend Christmas in Honolulu. There is…
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The Art of the Qur’an Exhibit (Freer Sackler Museum)
For those of you looking for something to do over the holiday break in the Washington, DC area, I highly recommend The Art of Qur’an exhibit currently being shown at the Freer Sackler Museum. There are over 70 Qur’ans on display, most of them beautifully illuminated. Many are over a thousand years old. (The oldest…