A bit of reminiscing & reflection. One year ago I had just seen one of these for the first time in my life…
For those of you like me, who wouldn’t know – this is a subway sign. A for real underground {at one point under-river} subway, not a sign for the sandwich place. I had never been to Washington DC, but I have wanted to go since I was 7 or 8. Which really has been a long time – like 30 years! It’s just never been an option. I was super, super excited. The trip was just dad, Vince & I; it was really hard to leave Christine behind with mom, but she kept saying she didn’t want to do the mass walking we were going to be doing. We were gone a total of 5.5 days – two of those days were spent traveling.
I don’t remember where we were on that list, but if I remember correctly we were at the bottom – on our way to Woodley Park Zoo. We had just flown for f.o.r.e.v.e.r to get there. It was 12+ hours of straight travel, with 10+ hours in the air. {for those wondering – it is a long way from one end of our country to the other!} When we landed it was midnight for DC, but to our bodies it was only 8pm. We did go pretty much straight to bed & slept until like 11:30 or 12 the next day – not part of the plan, but obviously our bodies needed it. We also left Alaska needing/wishing for coats & chilly to have 75* in DC. I thought we were going there in fall – boy was I surprised! It was hot and fall hadn’t started yet.
As I fell asleep, I remember anticipating seeing this….
and this….
Oh – it makes me so heart happy to scroll through my pictures and have these. I didn’t do very well on documenting me there – I think there are 1.5 photos…. oh well, I guess I just need to go back. This time with both Vince & Christine, for more time. Blissful. I do hope and pray someday this works out.
As wonderful as Alaska is – we don’t have much in the way of long-time history (our state is just 52 years old). The idea of 100’s of years old buildings is mind boggling to me. And they are still standing and fine. I want to spend more time seeing buildings and places, locations, I’ve read and heard about my whole life in history. Someday, please Lord, and could it be during either fall or in the height of spring. I could cry thinking about seeing cherry blossoms on trees or all the changing colors with fields. Lots of all of the above – old buildings; cherry blossoms (or any flowering tree for that matter); and the fall colors of the east coast – along with fields and covered wagons, might as well throw in a few barns too. Hmmm….might need to go check out some of my Pinterest boards :-D!
{PS: I apologize now if you come to visit and everything looks/is weird. I’m working on a new look, but I’m learning WordPress at the same time. My goal is to have this figured out by the end of 31 Days. That is also why every watermark looks different. (I’m keeping the same in each post though) I’m trying to decide what I like…. If something doesn’t work – please drop me a note & let me know. I doN’T know what I am doing!}