October 22, 2008
It's educational. It's educational.
The blogging has gone way down here since I got onto Facebook. It's so much easier to stick a meaningless one-liner status update onto Facebook, than it is to, say, write a blog post.
Remember when I took the kiddos to the McCain-Palin rally? At the time, my kids expressed interest in going to an Obama rally, too. Sure, I told them. It would be good to see both candidates. It would be educational.
Okay, but McCain and Palin were here on a nice, sunny, warm day. Outside, in a nice park. In the early afternoon. Near my house.
Suddenly, it turns out Obama will be in a little park practically next to my parents' house. Okay, but he's talking at 5:30, which is just a lousy time. Outdoors. As it's getting dark. And COLD. In a little park, which in no way is going to be able to accommodate the number of people I'm sure will be there. And cold. Accounting for both DC and Obama traffic, I figure I'd better leave my house four hours or so before the event. Then I'll be driving home in the dark, which I usually avoid, because I kind of have no depth perception in the dark.
I tried to passively get out of it, to have an excuse, but my husband took care of my excuse, and my children really want to go. Plus, my older children feel strongly that they should go to help keep a lid on their Grandma. I think they have visions of her being duct-taped and hauled off by Obama's security.
No, really, we're going. Yes, I'm whining about the logistics, but obviously it will be interesting and educational, and historical, and an opportunity that should not be passed up. I am wearing red, though.
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August 3, 2008
Manassas
One of the coolest things about living here is that we are surrounded by so much history. Yesterday we took a spur of the moment trip to the Manassas National Battlefield Park; it's only half an hour away. We got there so late in the day that we only had about half an hour before the Visitor's Center closed; but no matter, we were really there to walk around the battlefield. You can view the other photos here.
I haven't been posting many pictures lately, because Apple has changed iPhoto in ways that make it more of a pain for me to get my pictures from my camera to my blog. I think I'm finally working out the least irritating way of managing it. It's sad but true - I'm lazy, and if it's not easy, I won't do it.
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