we accomplished our goal of getting into Washington D.C. by midday... although it was pouring rain... didn't phase us too much though. cam and i dropped lisa off close to the Smithsonians than undertook the journey in search of parking, which ended up 
taking us over behind the Jefferson Memorial where we had parked in the fall... and were confident we could find spaces there... although it led to a decent hike in the rain to get back to the Smithsonians... we were excited for it, though, as the infamous cherry blossoms were in full bloom -- a stroke of luck for us -- and we learned more about the history of the trees that were a 1912 gift to the city of Washington of 3,000 cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo to enhance the growing friendship between the United States and Japan... there's even more cherry trees today. pretty awesome spectacle. even in the rain.
we worked our way to the Natural History Museum, where we rushed through the last hour that they would be open taking in tons of history on wildlife and nature on our planet... lots of dinosaurs, giant ground sloths, ancient birds, ancient fish, mammals, plantlife, peoples, rocks, stones, gems, crystals, all kinds of educational displays, diagrams, facts, artifacts, fossils, the hope diamond, geological marvels, stories of the evolution of living creatures on our planet, 
cultures, life on earth of all sorts, tons of people, it was intense... really way too much information to try and consume in so little time... but it was fun to breeze through it all and take in the overall spectacle. pretty awesome.from there we headed back to the van and jumped into the absolute cluster fuck that is is DC traffic. holy shit. what a nightmare. we were very thankful for our GPS babe at this point in time as she kept us on the course... took us about 50 minutes to travel the 4 miles up to Silver Spring and to the Quarry House Tavern... still pouring rain.
had a great time at the Quarry House. staff treated us super well and we loved their food and beer selection and overall ambiance. cool place. a new friend named
Trevor from Pennsylvania opened the show as his solo project Triangle Shirt Factory. cool stuff. and super nice guy. he brought out a nice little posse of folks thanks to his girlfriend Jesseka who is going to school in the area. we had a great time with all of them. ended up staying with a really nice guy named Dan and going to breakfast with all of them the next day.the show was pretty laid back and we used it as an opportunity to play some different stuff, including the first "A Whale, A Fish" of tour. really fun playing that tune again, and it felt rejuvenated and ready for the live stage again...
reporting for all of us Finn Rigginses
>>>> gilbert <<<<<
No comments:
Post a Comment