Nationals Game: they blew an 8-0 lead to the Cubs and lost 10-9. I repeat, they blew an 8-0 lead. But the tickets were dirt cheap, we got to move down pretty close, and I really wasn't there for the baseball anyway, so I shouldn't complain too much! Also their stadium is maaad eco-friendly, so at least they're doing something right. (Unlike Congress.)
Paddle boating on the Tidal Basin: beautiful! Everyone should do it. It's also pretty cheap ($19/hour for a boat that seats four people...and since the only way to move around on this stagnant mass of water is via peddling profusely, you're not going to do it for much more than an hour!)
Fast pedaling can cause rapid tiring of legs. Love the phrasing. Love the sentiment. Love it all. I feel like this is the English translation of a Mandarin warning. It just has that "ridiculous Chinese signs"feel.
The Jefferson! I love TJ so much.
Ducks. I feel the need to caption.
Invariably, DC tourists will have far too many pictures of the Monument. It is super uninteresting, since, ya know, it's just a giant obelisk, which is a covert artsy Masonic word for phallus. It dominates every good chunk of scenery in the city, and, like the Duke Chapel, is a permanent anchor point; a relieving sight that you're going the right way (or not!).
Reagan is soo close by it's insane. Isabella and I took tons of pictures of planes. For your sakes, I'll only post one.
TJ again, since I'm pretty attached. (This is my new desktop background.)
Tons and tons of bookstores. I love them. They are the best time wasting places. I also went to the library (Martin Luther King Jr. Public Library in Gallery Place, for my most avid followers who are dying to be just like me) because I'm the cheapest and hate paying for books. Unfortunately, they wouldn't give me a library card because I didn't have an official piece of mail with my name and address here on it. ID and misc. other documentation wasn't cutting it. This is apparently the rule for libraries everywhere (according to Julia), but I had no idea. My time in DC has been so educational in such unconventional ways.
White House: It's the White House, so obviously it's amazing. You don't actually get to see that much, just a ton of dining rooms (East Room, Red Room, Blue Room, Green Room, one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish, etc. I'm telling you the people who named all these parlors were GIFTED with words) This dining room parade is really a perfect reflection of America: we love to eat. We love to eat in all sorts of different places. We like to have lots of rooms for it. Kitchens and dining rooms and family rooms and parlors and breakfast nooks. We show this love-of-eating off to foreign dignitaries on a grand scale at the White House. You can't take pictures, so I don't have any. You also can't see any of the exciting parts (ie any of the West Wing). But if people could just traipse around them, they wouldn't be as exciting. This isn't just some historical site, like the house down the road from mine (in Jerz) where Washington supposedly slept once while he was busy leading us to freedom. This is a living, breathing monument. It is amazing because it is where the President actually works and lives right now. If it weren't, it wouldn't be as cool. That said, I'd still like to see the Oval Office, if anyone is offering. I'd even settle for a tour of Donna's desk.
The Washington Post: fantastic. Arguably more fascinating than the White House just because we actually got to talk to amazing reporters. I won't even get into it on here because I can't do it all justice. The internet is incredible. It has so thoroughly changed our world. I want to study it. Please, please, please engage me in conversation about this, I truly am fascinated. I will talk your ear off about the Post and a host of other semi-related things.
The Capitol: perfect. I'll run picture commentary, because I don't have much upfront to say about it. Besides the fact that those headsets they give you are annoying and our tour guide was a little crazy and patronizing to the Spanish tourists in our group.
Freedom, who also sits atop the dome of the Capitol
Rotunda. George Washington is sitting in the middle, with Liberty and Victory. Sad that that sounds more like call girls than allegorical women.
It's real life. It hasn't just been a collective nightmare.
Doin big things on ceilings at the Cap.
HENRY CLAY. Shoutout to all of AP US. This man was the great compromiser from Kentucky. He is a winner plain and simple. Besides the fact that he could never manage to win a presidential election. Details...
Nothin' more beautiful. Plus it was the first nice day we've had in a while. Dry and pleasant temps. Unlike the 100 degree swamp madness we've had for the past few weeks. But that's really enough about the weather.
(Most of the) EPA OEAEE Intern team! Do you like clean water and air? Then you're gonna love us! (Our pickup line of choice, obviously.) Also, Congress is currently putting the continuation of the Clean Water Act in jeopardy. Tell your Congressperson that that's WACK! Implore them to do what they, as politicians, do best: nothing.
That's the end of the lightning round folks, join us again next time for another rousing edition of George Likes to Type.
Only 10 days left in DC. Summer has gone WAY too fast!
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