Ben's Chili and Norman Rockwell

So for the Christmas break our little Christina has been a bit sick. Yet the other day we decided to test out her stamina and run to DC for a quick trip. We started off a little late so we ended up eating lunch first. Over thanksgiving we saw something on the Food Network about Ben's Chili and decided to try it out. We actually missed the real Ben's Chili experience and ended up next door at Ben's Next Door. Same food, yet you get to sit down and relax...which is what Christina needed.

And their chili cheese fries were pretty good as well.

After lunch we jumped back on the metro and ran over to the Smithsonian American Art Museum for the Norman Rockwell exhibit which goes away January 2, 2011.

The museum is a large square building with a center courtyard. A few years ago they built a covering for the courtyard. This is actually where we spent about 30 minutes waiting in line just to get into the exhibit.

We couldn't take pictures inside of the artwork.....but here a few we gathered from the internet so you can see what we saw.

Afterwards we jumped back on the metro and headed home. Christina didn't make it very far before she was out cold.

The on the way home we stopped at one of our favorite yogurt places called Pinkberry. It's a nice replacement for our Utah yogurt stop SpoonMe that we miss.