The visit was to celebrate Gordon's birthday and to experience 4th July celebrations. We also spent a lot of time walking round the city in the high 90s F and feel we have a good idea of our way round the centre, Georgetown and areas west.All Gordon wanted for a present was an iPhone and it went on sale at 4pm on his birthday. How could the 2 events be conjoined? First by a strategy to work out where the shop queues would be shortest on a Friday evening preceding a holiday weekend; then queuing for over two hours with similarly inspired ...ummm...fana...umm...enthusiasts. But then shock, horror it would not work, help-lines were permanently engaged, memories of broken toys at Christmas came to mind... Anyway three days later and all was well.
Our Ross Noble CD was received with more circumspection.
The 4th July parade was quite an international affair featuring school and military bands, batten twirlers, dancers from central american countries and even what looked like 17th century British soldiers (!?!), and not to mention a reminder that the girls all like men in be-medalled uniforms. Having seen arrangements for security for London parades those for DC seemed incredibly lax. No barriers between pavement and road, and leisure cyclists riding back and fro beside the paraders. And this in the military HQ of the US.
Gordon later took a shine to this vehicle but was not impressed at the offered trade in value of his *Ph*ne for part exchange. OOps, Blogger is playing up. The caption should read "This photo was taken with the *Ph*n*."
The following weekend we weaved our way through the byways of Maryland past Sugarloaf Mountain and on to Harpers Ferry. We stayed at a retro B&B that was very well done up in Victorian style:
HF is a former industrial town at the confluence of the rivers Potomac and Shenandoah at which an ill fated uprising took place which historians believe sparked the Revolution. It is now a museum town run as a National Park with lovely scenery and interesting re-enactments.
We assumed that this house had incorporated a smaller one (unpainted shape) which extended further to the side where there is a low stone wall:
(Part 2 to follow)
2 comments:
Very interesting. It's good to see the old colony still has repect for tradition, although the baton twirlers look like they've eaten too many Big Macs.
Maybe the twirlers are suburbanites. There is no need to eat fast food in the DC centre unless you are broke.
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