Floor Drama and Washington Adventures

Hi again, blog!
As you may know from the last post, we went to the Building Museum yesterday. The Building Museum is a random museum in Washington that showcases stuff about... well, buildings.
We rode the Metro down to Washington yesterday so we could go there. This is how it looks from the inside:

Yup. That's it.
Anyway, right in the middle of the Building Museum, there's a wooden maze that looks like this:

Well, Bug decided we should go through the maze, since that was what everyone else in the Museum was doing. So that's what we did.
It actually turned out to be a lot harder than it looks, though. We all kept going in circles again and again for like the first five minutes we were in the maze, until we finally realized that this one pathway which we thought was a dead end... actually WASN'T a dead end!
Also, we kept trying to look at this map of the maze to figure out which way to go, but then we realized that it actually wasn't even a map of the maze. It was just a maze.
Here are a couple Nora pictures. You can click them to enlarge.

Then we looked at a few exhibits about old buildings and statues and natural disasters, which I unfortunately don't have any pictures of because photography wasn't allowed in the exhibit-rooms. After that, we went to a gift shop where Nora wandered around for like 10 minutes, ranting to us about how she couldn't decide whether to get this one marble that looked like a peppermint or this one marble that didn't look like a peppermint. Eventually, she just decided to get them both. Sigh!

Then we went to lunch at this restaurant called 'Pret a Manger', which had a loooot of construction going on in front of it, as you can see:

Seriously, the construction was so loud that our eardrums were practically going to burst--even once we got inside the restaurant and chose a table near the very back of the room.
Anyway, about the restaurant--it seemed to be really obsessed with how they only serve their food when it's reeeeeeeeally fresh, and how their food is all sooo natural and wonderful and perfect in every way. This label was on the back of my juice:

I don't even know why I found that important enough to add to this post. But, whatever.
Moving on--
Apparently, the floor-varnish around the kitchen sink is starting to peel, so these floor-varnishing people have to come and re-varnish the kitchen floor. It wasn't supposed to take very long, but then they discovered that the floor situation was actually worse than we thought it was, so it's going to take 2 days for them to fix it. We can't use the kitchen sink or the stove for 2 days, because all of the floor-varnish-stuff is around the countertop, and, obviously, you aren't supposed to step on fresh floor-varnish stuff, so you can't step up to the sink to use the sink or step up to the stove to use the stove.
Here's a sloppy diagram I've made for you on MS Paint to help you comprehend this terribly complex situation:

Well, now I've just exposed my very unpresentable kitchen to the entire internet. Good for me.
Oh, and by the way, we can't use the kitchen table or the kitchen table benches either. That's because the floor-varnishing people want to be able to varnish that part of the floor without having to scoot under the table, which means that we have to totally deconstruct the table AND the benches for them. So now, with the table being deconstructed and all, the kitchen looks rather... scary.

See? Scary, isn't it?
Err, just kidding. It's not actually that scary. It's just... reeeally odd-looking.
And it also smells weird. You can't walk anywhere in the downstairs left half of the house without smelling the evil stench of VVVAAARRRNNNIIISSSHHHH!
Also, there are a bunch of table-pieces and bench-pieces and rolled-up rugs just sitting on towels in the middle of the hall, which is weird. Sooo, yeeeah.

EDIT: Well, the floor-varnishing people came again this morning, and now the entire floor is covered in varnish! So we can't go in the kitchen or use the fridge at all until tomorrow.