We thought it would be fun to go to the Rally to Restore Sanity put on by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on this 30th, which was nice because it actually fell on a Saturday. We slept in a little bit (until 7:30) and then played tennis since we haven't had a whole lot of time to do that together. Then we headed down to DC for the rally, starting at the White Flint metro station. There were hundreds of people on the platform waiting when we got there. We rushed into one of the cars and were able to find a seat. After the next stop, people were crammed into capacity. At each subsequent stop, nobody was able to squeeze on. And there were tons of people at each stop. The rally started at 12 and so we thought that would be a good time to get there. I think the permit requested for the rally only predicted about 60,000 people. But we showed up and there were throngs of people. We tried to get close, but once we were touching people on all four sides and couldn't move and couldn't hear anything from the rally, we got a little claustrophobic and turned around. I knew I didn't like crowds, but I gained an added measure of determination to never try to fight that kind of crowd again. I like personal space and being relaxed, not trying to squeeze through people just to get 5 feet closer.Next, we decided to go to a museum since they were likely empty. We decided to go to the National Portait Gallery and see the 3rd floor. We like to be thorough, so we bite off small chunks at a time. In the second picture below there was a horse made out of driftwood, but in order to enable it be sturdy and able to be moved, the artist cast each piece in bronze and then proceed to brush each piece to look like sun-bleached driftwood. After about an hour, we headed home. In hindsight, watching the rally on TV would have been much more enjoyable than those sweaty, crowded metro rides and all that wasted time. Oh well.
It was after all, Halloween weekend, so we went to a Halloween party with friends in the evening and got to eat some candy and have a good time. It ended up being a somewhat disjointed day, but every date can't turn out to be perfect and we still had fun!
