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This weekend I took off from work and went to Maryland with some friends from work to visit one of our former co-workers who got a teaching job down there. It was nice to see him, and he has a really nice apartment-I was jealous! But he seems to be happy down there so I'm really glad for him!
We went to D.C. the day we got there which was great. We went to see all the monuments and they were just amazing! I'd only been there once before, but it was when I was very little so I didn't really remember it very well, so it was just like seeing them for the first time in all their splendor! I took pictures too, a lot, so I'll have to sort through them a bit and then upload them later.
Before heading up to D.C. (it was about a half hour drive from Rich's town in Maryland) we went to Chick-Fil-A. Their slogan/mascot is a cow holding a sign that says "eat mor chikin"-or something like that, completely broken English. I don't understand it lol. My friends were like "oh it's because it's a cow, it doesn't know English," but I don't know it's just the weirdest thing I've ever seen haha.
The day after we went to a county fair-I take back the thing I said about Chick-Fil-A. This was even stranger...! There was a hog race, which we went to. That seemed a little barbaric to me. Ooh listen to me I sound like such a snoot lol...but anyway, there were people selling tee-shirts, most of which had the Confederate flag on them. They'd say things like "if this shirt upsets you, you need a history lesson," as well as some less provoking styles. The one thing that I was really appalled at was I saw little kids running around with blow-up toys, like the big blow-up guitar or saxophone, or sometimes you'll see a crayon...These kids (I didn't see where in the fair they were selling them) we running around with blow-up machine guns with the American flag printed on them!
I mean they're just little kids, and we're making guns out to be play things, teaching them that our pride as a nation should be our wars? I hate guns and I hate war so maybe I'm biased...I just was so upset by it...why couldn't they have been selling blow-up saxophones instead?
This just reminded me of something else-one of the memorials in D.C., the WWII memorial, had a small fountain at the center, and there were people dipping their feet in and their child was playing in it! It should be common sense, but there was a sign not five feet away from where they were saying to be respectful of our nations' monuments and what they represented and not to throw coins in the fountains or go in them, and there they were! It was so inappropriate! And then there was a woman walking her dog and the dog was wading through the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial!! I was so incredibly appalled!!! I hope I'm not overreacting...I just could not believe it, it was so disrespectful!!!
It was a good time, of course. I really enjoyed D.C., I really wanted to go the some of the museums, especially the Smithsonian, but I'm glad we didn't. Cassie and I really want to go there ourselves, so I'm glad I'll get to share that with her.
We went to D.C. the day we got there which was great. We went to see all the monuments and they were just amazing! I'd only been there once before, but it was when I was very little so I didn't really remember it very well, so it was just like seeing them for the first time in all their splendor! I took pictures too, a lot, so I'll have to sort through them a bit and then upload them later.
Before heading up to D.C. (it was about a half hour drive from Rich's town in Maryland) we went to Chick-Fil-A. Their slogan/mascot is a cow holding a sign that says "eat mor chikin"-or something like that, completely broken English. I don't understand it lol. My friends were like "oh it's because it's a cow, it doesn't know English," but I don't know it's just the weirdest thing I've ever seen haha.
The day after we went to a county fair-I take back the thing I said about Chick-Fil-A. This was even stranger...! There was a hog race, which we went to. That seemed a little barbaric to me. Ooh listen to me I sound like such a snoot lol...but anyway, there were people selling tee-shirts, most of which had the Confederate flag on them. They'd say things like "if this shirt upsets you, you need a history lesson," as well as some less provoking styles. The one thing that I was really appalled at was I saw little kids running around with blow-up toys, like the big blow-up guitar or saxophone, or sometimes you'll see a crayon...These kids (I didn't see where in the fair they were selling them) we running around with blow-up machine guns with the American flag printed on them!
I mean they're just little kids, and we're making guns out to be play things, teaching them that our pride as a nation should be our wars? I hate guns and I hate war so maybe I'm biased...I just was so upset by it...why couldn't they have been selling blow-up saxophones instead?
This just reminded me of something else-one of the memorials in D.C., the WWII memorial, had a small fountain at the center, and there were people dipping their feet in and their child was playing in it! It should be common sense, but there was a sign not five feet away from where they were saying to be respectful of our nations' monuments and what they represented and not to throw coins in the fountains or go in them, and there they were! It was so inappropriate! And then there was a woman walking her dog and the dog was wading through the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial!! I was so incredibly appalled!!! I hope I'm not overreacting...I just could not believe it, it was so disrespectful!!!
It was a good time, of course. I really enjoyed D.C., I really wanted to go the some of the museums, especially the Smithsonian, but I'm glad we didn't. Cassie and I really want to go there ourselves, so I'm glad I'll get to share that with her.