US Trip: Post 2
Whoo. The simple fact is that i have been a) a lazy arse and b) Having so much fun that it's been hard to actually GET to the computer.
For starters, we got SNOW yesterday! Actual snow! In which to frolic! Coincidentally, that was the day we said goodbye to Del and spent several hours wandering around the smithsonian making rude comments about malachite formations. I love this city. You can't walk more than five steps without tripping over culture.
There are now just the two of us - Crow and myself. Lil had to bugger off back to the west coast on account of university. Mornings are typically spent sleeping in painfully late, attempting to dutch-oven each other and then falling out into the climate in search of something vaguely resembling food.
What else...well, we converged on the Washington Monument chanting 'bacon', we met Black Aggie (sinister statue of a shrouded woman; if you sleep in her arms overnight, she's supposed to crush you to death), i chased squirrels and did a barbeque in honour of Australia Day on Crow's wee grill. Met Lincoln, too - the statue, not the real man. He's curiously benevolent, like the kind of uncle who reads you stories and sneaks you chocolate when your mum isn't looking. I can see why people go up there to think so often.
Wow...wandering around here is astounding. The walks are peppered with comments like "Oh, Teddy Roosevelt used to go swimming in that pond. Pissed his staff off no end"; we regularly just STROLL PAST THE WHITEHOUSE, JUST LIKE THAT. It'd be nice to leave the Obamas a welcoming present like a bundt cake or something, but the security's so bloody tight that i doubt it'd get to him.
Oh, speaking of security. There's more coppers per square metre around here than anywhere else i've ever been. I've never felt safer wandering around. I couldn't spit without hitting someone in uniform.
Speaking of non-linear posts, Del, Crow and myself coincidentally chose the eve of Chinese New Year to go to chinatown for dinner - after stuffing ourselves on dumplings and noodles, we wandered out into the MIDDLE OF ANOTHER PARADE. Dear god, this city just spits 'em up like a baby with hiccups. The dragon dancers seemed to like del - must have been all the orange. Del adores orange, and dresses like a tiny traffic cone.
Where was i. Oh, yes. I got my snow, and a snowball fight to boot. The thing to watch out for is the 'volunteers', who are actually hobos handing out city maps and pointing out where the monuments are. "Hello, i'm terribly polite and helpful and offering this free service, now please give me two dollars." I lost about eight dollars before i clued in. Sneaky little buggers.
I think we're hitting the portrait galleries today. Difficult to tell - we've been working like mad on Hunter and Niko's saga, tentatively named i-have-not-the-faintest-idea. They now have a pair of rival mobs to mess with, as well as a psychotic assassin.
This is going to rock faces off.
lots of love,
Pixie
For starters, we got SNOW yesterday! Actual snow! In which to frolic! Coincidentally, that was the day we said goodbye to Del and spent several hours wandering around the smithsonian making rude comments about malachite formations. I love this city. You can't walk more than five steps without tripping over culture.
There are now just the two of us - Crow and myself. Lil had to bugger off back to the west coast on account of university. Mornings are typically spent sleeping in painfully late, attempting to dutch-oven each other and then falling out into the climate in search of something vaguely resembling food.
What else...well, we converged on the Washington Monument chanting 'bacon', we met Black Aggie (sinister statue of a shrouded woman; if you sleep in her arms overnight, she's supposed to crush you to death), i chased squirrels and did a barbeque in honour of Australia Day on Crow's wee grill. Met Lincoln, too - the statue, not the real man. He's curiously benevolent, like the kind of uncle who reads you stories and sneaks you chocolate when your mum isn't looking. I can see why people go up there to think so often.
Wow...wandering around here is astounding. The walks are peppered with comments like "Oh, Teddy Roosevelt used to go swimming in that pond. Pissed his staff off no end"; we regularly just STROLL PAST THE WHITEHOUSE, JUST LIKE THAT. It'd be nice to leave the Obamas a welcoming present like a bundt cake or something, but the security's so bloody tight that i doubt it'd get to him.
Oh, speaking of security. There's more coppers per square metre around here than anywhere else i've ever been. I've never felt safer wandering around. I couldn't spit without hitting someone in uniform.
Speaking of non-linear posts, Del, Crow and myself coincidentally chose the eve of Chinese New Year to go to chinatown for dinner - after stuffing ourselves on dumplings and noodles, we wandered out into the MIDDLE OF ANOTHER PARADE. Dear god, this city just spits 'em up like a baby with hiccups. The dragon dancers seemed to like del - must have been all the orange. Del adores orange, and dresses like a tiny traffic cone.
Where was i. Oh, yes. I got my snow, and a snowball fight to boot. The thing to watch out for is the 'volunteers', who are actually hobos handing out city maps and pointing out where the monuments are. "Hello, i'm terribly polite and helpful and offering this free service, now please give me two dollars." I lost about eight dollars before i clued in. Sneaky little buggers.
I think we're hitting the portrait galleries today. Difficult to tell - we've been working like mad on Hunter and Niko's saga, tentatively named i-have-not-the-faintest-idea. They now have a pair of rival mobs to mess with, as well as a psychotic assassin.
This is going to rock faces off.
lots of love,
Pixie