So we started out the day in the Washington D.C. Metro, which was a bit zoo. It took us 20-30 minutes to get through the whole thing although eventually we did. We bought two one day tickets so we won't have to wait in line tomorrow.
Our first stop was Robert F. Kennedy Stadium. When we got out we were immediately bombarded by hawkers selling every kind of Obama merchandice imaginable. Jennifer's favorite was the Obama Air Freshener. To quote the guy selling it, "Yes, Obama smells like New Car!" There were lots of volunteers, and it was very well organized. Once we got through the rat maze, we were seated in chairs where we were given instructions (and where we did the 'fired up, ready to go' thing' we went down to a heated tent in the middle of the stadium. We put together care packages for our soldiers, which basically consisted of being a human cog in a giant wheel that we went around 12 times each. We held the bag, and another volunteer dumped something into it. After we were done we wrote letters for the troops. Jennifer and I each wrote four.
Then we took the Metro to the National Portrait Gallery. We've been here two previous times in two years, so we've already seen a lot of other stuff, and we hoped to find Colbert's portrait. We didn't find that, but we did see a lot of the Presidential Portraits. As you can imagine, we skipped the last one. We found a lot of cool pictures, including a women's exhibit and a general American art exhibit. We got pretty tired towards the end.
We ate dinner at the Spy City Cafe (Which we attended at the Spy Museum last year) and then headed home. Of course, thanks to the @#$@#$#@ navigator, we took another wrong turn and ended up in the 395 HOV lane and all the way back down town before we finally turned around and headed back to the hotel room.
Tomorrow we will be going to the Inauguration but don't have tickets, so we'll be in outer space.
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Since people have been asking about what we ate (OK Christy asked), We had 4 hotdogs, I had a Langly and an MI-5, and Jennifer had a MI-5 and a Havana. I also had a potato salad.
Colbert's portrait is in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. It's on the third floor (or second, but I believe it's the third) right next to the water fountain. At least, that's where it was when I went in November, shortly after the museum opened back up from renovations. :-)
Hope y'all are having a good time!
-Elizabeth Hartman
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