Look Out, DC

Juniper • Oct 20, 2009 8:20 pm

My 8th grade daughter just left on a class trip to Washington DC.

How the heck did she get old enough to do this?!

Please join me in sending good vibes and prayers of the safety of the class of 2014 on their journey!

Class of 2014!!!! :eek:

Trilby • Oct 20, 2009 8:39 pm

Consider the good vibes sent!

skysidhe • Oct 20, 2009 9:10 pm

How awesome!

lookout123 • Oct 20, 2009 11:10 pm

I pass my blessing upon this warning.

xoxoxoBruce • Oct 21, 2009 2:16 am

Did you warn her about the bloodshot eyed, hairy knuckled, lobbyists? :mg:

Juniper • Oct 21, 2009 8:50 am

It's a whirlwind tour - their itinerary is exhausting just to read. I think she's safe from hairy knuckled lobbyists. :)

joelnwil • Oct 21, 2009 9:24 am

I hope everything goes fine. Be sure that she does not wander off, but stays in the hotel and with the group. DC is a very crime-filled place. I once had somebody on the street try to sell me a watch (stolen, I imagine) within sight of the White House.

glatt • Oct 21, 2009 10:14 am

"I'm cold, and those teenagers are frightening me."

Shawnee123 • Oct 21, 2009 10:15 am

:lol:

I was thinking something along those lines.

monster • Oct 21, 2009 9:56 pm

me three.

Juniper • Oct 22, 2009 12:00 am

Spoke to her tonight. She said they had encountered a "protester" - some woman with about four teeth who lived in a tent and said she'd been there since 1984, had a poster calling Bush a terrorist and told the kids "you don't know nothin'."

Ha. I asked her if anyone had told the woman that Bush wasn't prez anymore.

Redux • Oct 22, 2009 12:21 am

Juniper;602526 wrote:
Spoke to her tonight. She said they had encountered a "protester" - some woman with about four teeth who lived in a tent and said she'd been there since 1984, had a poster calling Bush a terrorist and told the kids "you don't know nothin'."

Ha. I asked her if anyone had told the woman that Bush wasn't prez anymore.

That would be Conchita

glatt • Oct 22, 2009 8:25 am

Juniper;602526 wrote:
said she'd been there since 1984

Before we moved offices, I used to go for walks on my lunch hour past the White House and around the Ellipse pretty much daily. She's always there. Rain or shine. A landmark, like a tree. They did move her over about a hundred feet last time I was there a month ago, but I can say I've seen her there for the past 20 years. Never talked to her though.

Redux has the correct link.

Juniper • Oct 22, 2009 9:37 am

OMFG!!! Really!

My daughter's gonna be amazed by this. What an education she is getting!