Thank God For Wide-Mouth Bottles
Well, after running the air conditioner we seem to have reverted back to running the heater. It is in the 50s and cloudy here today in Williamsburg, VA.
We spent the weekend visiting Angie’s sister and brother-in-law in the area around Quantico, VA. They took us into DC on Saturday on the Metro (or “T” as Mason likes to call it). I neglected to bring my pedometer along, so I can’t say for certain how far we walked, but it was probably about 468 million miles.
We took the blue line to the yellow line and got off at L’Enfant Plaza, which put us near the Capitol building.
We stopped off at the National Archives so that we could wait in line for two hours to see the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, and the Constitution.
It was pretty moving for us, as both Angie and I are very patriotic.
We continued down the mall and passed the IRS building (yuck), the Department of Justice, and several princesses (or princei, not sure of the plural form)…
before hitting the Whitehouse.
After that was the Lincoln Memorial.
By this time we’d had enough patriotism and headed into Georgetown another eight blocks to find the Metro stop. We were starving and hopped the train to Chinatown, where we ate an awesome Mongolian meal at Tony Chen’s.
But the best story of the day involves Max…
So we are heading back through the Metro system and are waiting for our train at the Pentagon Metro station. Max announces that he has to really go the bathroom (this is after peeing twice already). So what do you do when you have a six-year-old that needs to pee, have less than 5 minutes to catch the train and there are no bathrooms in sight? Empty juice container, of course.
Thank God for wide-mouth bottles.
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:17 am
With twin grandchildren of three, one of each sex, I shall bear this in mind. Brilliant. I have a friend who once held his daughter over a wash basin in the gents when they were camping in France (all the cubicals/urinals were in use) and ended up with more than he’d bargained for! Had to try and stuff it down the plug hole before anyone saw.