February 15, 2007

We'll get out of here...soon


First I want to give a "shout-out" to Bob. (Bob is the dad of Kate who's married to Sean who is the couple we've been haning out with. He randomly found out about our flight cancellation on Wed. through our blog which he found while searching on the internet before Kate called him and then asked Kate if she happened to know this "Luke and Annie").

So today was filled with metro rides around DC. We went to the National Museum of the American Indian which was pretty cool and then tried to go to the Aquarium but couldn't because Luke was carrying his pocket knife and they wouldn't let us in (way to go Luke!). It was a pretty funny situation because we watched this 15-year-old in front of us try to go through the metal dector like 5 times, taking more things out of his pocket each time, then his belt off until he finally made it through. Then Luke, knowing he had the knife in his pocket (which I didn't know about), tried to go through with it still in his pocket even though we'd just watch the kid empty every last thing per instructions by the security officer. So Luke backed up, sheepishly took off his belt and then pulled out his pocket knife to which the security officer looked at with a "what the hell" look and told us to leave. Oops. It was time to go back to the hotel after that as we were both tired of walking around in the frigid cold which has followed us from Colorado to Iowa and then to DC.

We got back to the hotel took a quick nap and then met up with the entire group at 5 to hear the instructions for the weekend flight plans. We're leaving on Sunday with about 20 others. The rest are leaving on 2 flights on Sat. and meeting up at a connection flight before heading to Honduras.

Tonight (Thurs) we met up with Simon Halder (friend of Luke's from home) and a friend of his for drinks along with about 10 other volunteers at a pub near our hotel. Had a good time. Again, I can't say how lucky we are to be hanging out with such a cool group of people. Tomorrow morning we have structured stuff run by Peace Corps staff from 9 am - 4 pm. I think they figure they have to keep some sort of tabs on us until they ship us out.

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