We had to get up and start out early to get to the first break out session at 9:00. We went back to the little deli we found that would feed us a quick breakfast and went our separate ways. Some to do learn about volunteerism, and some to roam the streets... I wrote a half dozen postcards, then asked the at the Info. desk to find where to deposit mail.
I did a bit of exploring and found: a neat little Japanese garden hidden inside a building. A post office in the belly of a hotel. A convenience store (I would say curb store but it was two levels below the surface) underground, where they sold postcards for thirty five cents, instead of a dollar at Walgreens. A Walgreens that only sells food and drinks... until you go upstairs where you can get your face done, and buy all manner of overpriced HBA, or downstairs for Rx and OTC. At street level, all you see is a wall of coolers with cold beverages, and rows and rows of food items, mostly snacky stuff. A really neat church, that looks like it has been growing right there on that plot of land for hundreds of years. A pretty little walking-mall, where the city has closed off a street and installed nearly full-sized ginko trees in some huge planters, along with annuals, and lots of benches for weary feets, business lunch people, tourists to R & R.
Met back up with my traveling buddy when she got finished with Wrap-up/Ending session, and we went to Chinatown for lunch. Then back down into the Rabbit Hole to get a train and come out near the Newseum, where we spent the afternoon, wandering, reading, being indoctrinated about First Amendment rights. Our feets are tired, so we headed back to home base, where we await K. coming in from her daily work, and we will go out to eat someplace she recommends.
K. also recommends a 'market' that we will go to in the morning, just to see what's there... and probably back into the Mall area to do a bit more sightseeing. I have wanted to visit the National Museum of Native Americans since it opened several years ago, partially as a result of reading articles in the Smithsonian magazine that has been coming to my house for years. Maybe we will do that, and walk on the Mall, see some of the memorials. I noticed scaffolding all the way to the pointy top of the Washington Monument, so I guess repair work is still being done after earthquake damage?
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