So this is how my day went.
Sep. 4th, 2010 07:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsos-- First, we went to the zoo. I packed peanut butter sandwiches and snacks which neither one of us ended up eating. We did what we usually do when we see strange animals, which is compare them to my mom's cats. "That lemur looks just like Owen." "Well, I think he looks like Spencer." "Yeah, okay, I can see that."
Aaaand then we saw a red panda rub its butt against a log before peeing on it, which was pretty much the cutest thing we saw all day. (Or possibly the second cutest, now that I think about it.)
-- We got on The World's Longest Escalator back down into the Woodley Park Metro station and got a firsthand example on the steps right in front of us of the walk-on-the-left-stand-on-the-right rule and how irritated people get when you break it. About five other people and I got off that escalator seething.
-- We were going to go to Georgetown for a while, which as far as I knew meant going to Dupont Circle and catching a shuttle. But when we were looking for the shuttle, we noticed a sign pointing towards where the White House was and said, "Hey, let's walk there!" Soooo we walked there, past a bunch of embassies and the Planned Parenthood which some silent Christian woman was kneeling and praying outside of and a bunch of other buildings and finally we got to the White House. There were unsurprisingly a bunch of protesters, but they were all protesting the government's actions or lack thereof in regards to the spill in the Gulf, so we pretty much sat there next to the gate and silently encouraged them. (They were in waaaay too good a mood to be protesters, as far as I'm concerned.)
-- Then we got hot dogs and sodas and went to sit and eat at a picnic bench within sight of the Washington Monument, where my brother fed one of the peanut butter sandwiches to a squirrel who by the end was literally taking the pieces from his hand. HE'S COVERED IN SQUIRREL RABIES, YOU GUYS.
-- And then I had an amusing bit of confusion out of my brother between the Mall and a mall -- the Pentagon City Mall specifically. Which we then went to and marveled at shirts in Guess that can exist on the clearance rack and STILL be seventy bucks. (My brother forgot his swim trunks and needed to find a pair. Out of season. Yeah, he was about as lucky as you can imagine.)
Aaaand then we saw a red panda rub its butt against a log before peeing on it, which was pretty much the cutest thing we saw all day. (Or possibly the second cutest, now that I think about it.)
-- We got on The World's Longest Escalator back down into the Woodley Park Metro station and got a firsthand example on the steps right in front of us of the walk-on-the-left-stand-on-the-right rule and how irritated people get when you break it. About five other people and I got off that escalator seething.
-- We were going to go to Georgetown for a while, which as far as I knew meant going to Dupont Circle and catching a shuttle. But when we were looking for the shuttle, we noticed a sign pointing towards where the White House was and said, "Hey, let's walk there!" Soooo we walked there, past a bunch of embassies and the Planned Parenthood which some silent Christian woman was kneeling and praying outside of and a bunch of other buildings and finally we got to the White House. There were unsurprisingly a bunch of protesters, but they were all protesting the government's actions or lack thereof in regards to the spill in the Gulf, so we pretty much sat there next to the gate and silently encouraged them. (They were in waaaay too good a mood to be protesters, as far as I'm concerned.)
-- Then we got hot dogs and sodas and went to sit and eat at a picnic bench within sight of the Washington Monument, where my brother fed one of the peanut butter sandwiches to a squirrel who by the end was literally taking the pieces from his hand. HE'S COVERED IN SQUIRREL RABIES, YOU GUYS.
-- And then I had an amusing bit of confusion out of my brother between the Mall and a mall -- the Pentagon City Mall specifically. Which we then went to and marveled at shirts in Guess that can exist on the clearance rack and STILL be seventy bucks. (My brother forgot his swim trunks and needed to find a pair. Out of season. Yeah, he was about as lucky as you can imagine.)
