Washington DC

The trip to Washington D.C. turned out GREAT. First of all, everything in D.C. is supersized. The Supreme Court building is the same size as my hometown. Honestly, those people on TV must be standing in front of a papier mache model of the Capitol building – because they would look like Honey I Shrunk the Kids in front of the real one.

A few highlights from my trip:

• The ticket thing didn’t turn out so badly after all. Apparently, the key to walking right into a tour in Washington D.C. is not having 35 kids in tow. ["Party of 2, no field trip? Come right in."]
• Visitors to D.C. are either 13 or 73, there is no in-between. Everyone between the ages of 20 and 30 works there (presumably controlling gazillion dollar budgets like twenty-year-olds were born to do).
• Apparently, zoning laws require ALL restaurant/bar/workplace TV’s to be tuned to CNN, MSNBC or Fox. Don’t you people know there is a game on???
• There is a monument every 20 feet in that city.  You have to be vigilant for monument fatigue…"Oh, it’s just the Korean War monument.” [It probably seemed like a pretty significant war to the guys who fought in it.]
• They really do have a museum or a monument to EVERYTHING in D.C.  I was fine to skip a few of the less popular ones:

1. The Summer School Museum [no thanks, once was enough]
2. Hall of Prohibition [sounds like a blast]
3. The Blonde-American Memorial [A hyphen + the word “American” =surefire monument]
4. The Dan Quayle Monumant to the Vice-Presidency [Speaking of Quayle, whatever happened to…]
5. Secret Service Anti-Insurgency Demonstration [oh wait….that wasn’t a re-enactment, that was DADT protestors getting too close to the White House.]

 My FAVORITE was the tour of the Capitol…but more on that tomorrow.