Washington DC
Washington DC is amazing. We left Owen on the boat. He is our boat protector plus he sleeps all day so he can wake us up at 5am. He is so mischief !! He has discovered that ripping toilet paper is fun and quiet. Since toilet paper is a big deal to me. I now keep the toilet paper in a tin. He also lives to try and open up the many lockers, drawers, cabinets, sliding doors and cubby holes in the middle of the night. Since I wake up I yell at him or get up. Since Ben does not wake up I have decided to wake him up to take turns with "our child". He has not complained once. Out loud to me anyway. Ok back to the story of today.
Woke up. Jase Annie ate captian crunch. I had granola with black berries. Yum! Ben had his normal meal of coffee.
We dinghied to the harbour where we are squatters. We decided to ask for forgiveness than permission if someone says we should not be there.
On to Washington. Traffic is scary! We walked straight from 11am to 7pm. To the monument to white house to capitol down china town. (yesterday at Annapolis we went to the capitol of MD. Funny we went to security where an uptight woman guard was so focused on being stern and by-the-book that Ben put his knife -leatherman- on the conveyor belt. He walked thru. She pulled him aside and frisked him with th wand. It went off but she said it was his shoes. He asked if he should bring his knife in. She said yes pick up all your stuff. He asked twice We all looked funny. Jason did not have an ID so he had to sit in a chair and wait for us. While waiting she checked in the next group. She notice a knife had gone thru and thought it was that group. Jase said it was funny when she looked paniced and could not find who had the knife. She asked the group "who has the knife?! Who has the knife?!" they all sad they didn't. Jase was laughing at her. )
So today Ben forgot his knife on his belt again this time we knew it would not be good. So we went to a starbucks and Ben stashed his knife in the bathroom in the flower vase. On our way out we picked it up just as the tarbucks was closing.
I think my highlight was there was a skinny guy feeding squirrels and birds in the park. I asked if I could take a picture of them. He smiled and was pleased I asked.
Don't get me wrong. I loved Washington. So many monuments. The WWII was hard. It is a big circle and as I stood in the circle I watched the WWII veterans tell stories and I was overwhelmed tears of war and the poor dead guys and gals. It was hard and totally unexpected. Jase patted me on the shoulders and said it was ok. War is so puzzling. I can't watch war movies either. I don't understand war.
Back at the boat. Annie is just starting to get sick again. We are waiting for the dark to see if we are in bio bay.
Goodnight all. God makes the best creatures of the dark. He has mercy for the veterans of war on all sides for all.
Signing off
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