back home
well, wyoming. got back yesterday evening, wrapped snug in my new favourite item of clothing (a deep morone coloured woolen shawl that doubles as a - oh, wadda u call it? blanket with hole in the middle for your head... you know what i mean), and struggled across from fraternity row with all my luggage.
poncho! that's the word.
anyway, so since my last entry i have finished my washington dc trip with loads more sightseeing, seen phantom of the opera in denver and tiki-toured back to laramie with rachel - via really good italiano!
so, saturday in DC -
Back Alleys of Capitol Hill tour, armed only with coffee and croisant. Fantastic tour. So fun to do the non-touristy DC - up behind the capitol, around the back alleys, houses of famous/semi-famous people, ended at east city market. Spot of shopping, pretty white paua ring, big woolen shawl/poncho described above, massage oil, punnet of strawberries, and (bonus of all) free little pink butterfly necklace from a newzealander!!! selling jewelery and bags and shawls at the market. she's a fashion designer. is throwing a party for the visiting allblacks next weekend. she invited me!!! and i had to turn it down. oh, i still don't believe it. could have been at a little private party, chilling with the allblacks, in washinton DC. damn it!
but very cool necklace. matched my phantom of the opera outfit perfectly!
then walked down toward the capitol to the folgers shakespeare library and the cool gift shop there. had a ball. spent a few dollars or more. got annoyed that i couldn't afford to go see much ado about nothing that night - favourite shakespeare ever!
wandering down past library of congress and capitol to art museam, decided i couldn't afford lunch in their restuarant and needed to eat badly so went back out to the mall and got me a hotdog and chips, huge soda and and sat down on a park bench about half way between capitol building and washington monument. flicked through the museam maps for the art gallery and american history museam, circling exhibits i wanted to see. some amazing stuff, oh my gosh. and all original copies of real famous stuff. i'll put the photos on here as soon as i can get the photo-upload option to work properly. it worked!!!
see...
next, went to the art gallery shop and bought little somethings for hannah b and andrea... oh, you guys are gonna love these. then to the american history museam. not much to capture my fancy but the jazz exhibits with duke ellington and ella fitzgerald, and the brown vs. the board of education exhibit - all about desegregation of schools in america. very cool and interesting could spend weeks going through the smithsonian museams but only 2 of the 3 i went to were even smithsonian and i didn't see all of what was in any of them. next time. i'll just have to go back.
then went for a long walk. up to the washington monument, touched it, took photos and then all the way to the lincoln memorial, via war memorials and the reflecting pool (famous from forrest gump as far as i'm concerned). very long walk in total - then all the way back up to 9th and K streets to the youth hostel. legs so dead. still trying to recover to tell the truth. slightly afraid might have shin splits. but not sure as never have and you only learn so much from faithfully watching ER. lots, but not everything.
sunday got up 6am east coast time, so 4 am mountain time (Laramie), to get to airport on time - sharing a cab with another girl from the hostel who had a flight around the same time to buffalo, ny. so got to denver, flying direct, four hours later. about half past 10 mountain time. flight was good - watched fantastic four and slept a bit, bought a snack box and nibbled away between cups of coffee and the ice lemon tea schnapple i bought at Dulles (washington airport i departed from).
got gear and bus details back at denver and had some lunch, while working on nanowrimo novel (www.nanowrimo.org), for an hour until i went to the bus. but took me all the way into denver - the market street station. and i waited on the cnr of market and 16th for about 10 mins till rachel showed up. got my luggage in the back and we wandered up to the theatre for phantom of the opera.
bloody brilliant! oh my gosh. i'd been waiting to see that for about 10 years i think and it was so good. will be reading that book again when i get home - good holiday reading - bit of old french horror. i'm normal. but it's soooooo good. and scary, to be true. anyway, very good cast - so impressed with raoul and christine and the phantom was wonderfully grotesque and pittiable. just as he should be. sill ppl who think you're meant to like him. no. he's evil and obcessed, pittiable but so very evil. movie makes him kinda nice and even the musical you could get away with liking him but in the book he is most definately the bad guy. just a very good and complex bad guy who is hard not to admire - and pity. music was fantastic. i was transfixed, leaning forward in my seat. we were right up the back of the balcony, on the side, cheap seats but could see everything so not bad at all.
afterward was grinning like a fool then went to italian restuarant - an hours wait. flag that. so rachel and i took off and went to loveland for dinner. had great time. chit chat all the way in the car, through dinner, mmm, and all the way back to laramie. so tired when i got back tho.
unpacking looking forward to bed, when i realised, it's dad's birthday today in nz. 50! and they're calling tonight - sometime between 11 and 12. i can't make it that long. it was 9.30 ish and i was shattered. and they weren't online for me to ask to call earlier. emailed them at home and work and they called half and hour later.
so good talk with mum and dad. lots of teasing about dad's secret retirement plan of buying a house on a beach with no road access so he has to get a boat aswell. then we'll have mussels on the deck and fish forever. or he will. and i'll visit frequently. and bring supplies.
hehe. bought him cool stuff at air and space museam so feel less guilty about missing whole birthday week celebrations. and we're gonna go out for mussels when i get back to make up for it. yay!
poncho! that's the word.
anyway, so since my last entry i have finished my washington dc trip with loads more sightseeing, seen phantom of the opera in denver and tiki-toured back to laramie with rachel - via really good italiano!
so, saturday in DC -
Back Alleys of Capitol Hill tour, armed only with coffee and croisant. Fantastic tour. So fun to do the non-touristy DC - up behind the capitol, around the back alleys, houses of famous/semi-famous people, ended at east city market. Spot of shopping, pretty white paua ring, big woolen shawl/poncho described above, massage oil, punnet of strawberries, and (bonus of all) free little pink butterfly necklace from a newzealander!!! selling jewelery and bags and shawls at the market. she's a fashion designer. is throwing a party for the visiting allblacks next weekend. she invited me!!! and i had to turn it down. oh, i still don't believe it. could have been at a little private party, chilling with the allblacks, in washinton DC. damn it!
but very cool necklace. matched my phantom of the opera outfit perfectly!
then walked down toward the capitol to the folgers shakespeare library and the cool gift shop there. had a ball. spent a few dollars or more. got annoyed that i couldn't afford to go see much ado about nothing that night - favourite shakespeare ever!
wandering down past library of congress and capitol to art museam, decided i couldn't afford lunch in their restuarant and needed to eat badly so went back out to the mall and got me a hotdog and chips, huge soda and and sat down on a park bench about half way between capitol building and washington monument. flicked through the museam maps for the art gallery and american history museam, circling exhibits i wanted to see. some amazing stuff, oh my gosh. and all original copies of real famous stuff. i'll put the photos on here as soon as i can get the photo-upload option to work properly. it worked!!!
see...
next, went to the art gallery shop and bought little somethings for hannah b and andrea... oh, you guys are gonna love these. then to the american history museam. not much to capture my fancy but the jazz exhibits with duke ellington and ella fitzgerald, and the brown vs. the board of education exhibit - all about desegregation of schools in america. very cool and interesting could spend weeks going through the smithsonian museams but only 2 of the 3 i went to were even smithsonian and i didn't see all of what was in any of them. next time. i'll just have to go back.
then went for a long walk. up to the washington monument, touched it, took photos and then all the way to the lincoln memorial, via war memorials and the reflecting pool (famous from forrest gump as far as i'm concerned). very long walk in total - then all the way back up to 9th and K streets to the youth hostel. legs so dead. still trying to recover to tell the truth. slightly afraid might have shin splits. but not sure as never have and you only learn so much from faithfully watching ER. lots, but not everything.
sunday got up 6am east coast time, so 4 am mountain time (Laramie), to get to airport on time - sharing a cab with another girl from the hostel who had a flight around the same time to buffalo, ny. so got to denver, flying direct, four hours later. about half past 10 mountain time. flight was good - watched fantastic four and slept a bit, bought a snack box and nibbled away between cups of coffee and the ice lemon tea schnapple i bought at Dulles (washington airport i departed from).
got gear and bus details back at denver and had some lunch, while working on nanowrimo novel (www.nanowrimo.org), for an hour until i went to the bus. but took me all the way into denver - the market street station. and i waited on the cnr of market and 16th for about 10 mins till rachel showed up. got my luggage in the back and we wandered up to the theatre for phantom of the opera.
bloody brilliant! oh my gosh. i'd been waiting to see that for about 10 years i think and it was so good. will be reading that book again when i get home - good holiday reading - bit of old french horror. i'm normal. but it's soooooo good. and scary, to be true. anyway, very good cast - so impressed with raoul and christine and the phantom was wonderfully grotesque and pittiable. just as he should be. sill ppl who think you're meant to like him. no. he's evil and obcessed, pittiable but so very evil. movie makes him kinda nice and even the musical you could get away with liking him but in the book he is most definately the bad guy. just a very good and complex bad guy who is hard not to admire - and pity. music was fantastic. i was transfixed, leaning forward in my seat. we were right up the back of the balcony, on the side, cheap seats but could see everything so not bad at all.
afterward was grinning like a fool then went to italian restuarant - an hours wait. flag that. so rachel and i took off and went to loveland for dinner. had great time. chit chat all the way in the car, through dinner, mmm, and all the way back to laramie. so tired when i got back tho.
unpacking looking forward to bed, when i realised, it's dad's birthday today in nz. 50! and they're calling tonight - sometime between 11 and 12. i can't make it that long. it was 9.30 ish and i was shattered. and they weren't online for me to ask to call earlier. emailed them at home and work and they called half and hour later.
so good talk with mum and dad. lots of teasing about dad's secret retirement plan of buying a house on a beach with no road access so he has to get a boat aswell. then we'll have mussels on the deck and fish forever. or he will. and i'll visit frequently. and bring supplies.
hehe. bought him cool stuff at air and space museam so feel less guilty about missing whole birthday week celebrations. and we're gonna go out for mussels when i get back to make up for it. yay!
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