May 14– Continuing on to the Capitol

I apologize for the delay in getting this posted. It’s Zack again though, if you remember me from the long break since I wrote last.

This morning I awoke somewhat late, as has become the precedent, on Rhonda’s comfortable bed. We had decided late the previous night to make the drive to Washington D.C. today but the friends who are hosting us wouldn’t be available until after 8:00 tonight so we had to find some way to spend the day. We spent a little time in the morning looking at things to do on the computer, than I decided that I was hungry so we decided to fulfill our Saturday tradition of getting doughnuts (I did realize that we missed on week of the tradition but that was only because the food we were being offered at the house was delicious enough that it wasn’t necessary to go anywhere else. [Now that sounds like an insult to the other people we’ve stayed with, but it isn’t don’t worry everyone has been amazing to us, thank you all so much]).

We drove to a nearby, it was literally only a couple of blocks away, Dunkin’ Doughnuts and each got our chosen doughnuts. We drove back and ate them at home with milk, for me, and iced tea, for Isaac. After eating we went up stairs to see if there was anything to do and eventually decided that we should get the blog up-to-date (which obviously didn’t last very long, but I did finish some school work), and thus decided not to visit the city any, even though I’m sure we missed out on something in Richmond.

The rest of the day, at least until we eventually left, was spent on our various electronic devices, wasting our lives away. I went out a couple of times to help Rhonda move some soil for some tomato plants she was planning on gardening, but other than that mainly stayed inside. Eventually at around six we got our things together and after some goodbyes and a couple of pictures we left Virginia. Seeing and talking with more distant relatives is always interesting because the stories are different than all of those in the closer family. I’m glad I got to re-meet Rhonda and meet (I believe for the first time) her son and his wife and kids.

The drive was only about two hours, which I was in charge of while Isaac… well I’m not entirely sure what he did, but he occupied his time with something. We drove straight to our friends in DC without venturing off the road and arrived outside there house at about 8:30. I had been warned of the traffic in Washington D.C. and though I didn’t encounter too many problems the roads are definitely a lot more complicated than those of Utah. Turns and circles everywhere and lanes showing up and disappearing on both sides, not to mention trying to decide which lane is the exit and which is the continuation of the interstate.

After all the winding roads we drove into the drive-way of Stefanie and Jesse, who had been previous youth pastors at Isaac’s and my church (though I was not there very much when they were). We were welcomed into their house and given dinner, an Indian soup that I don’t know the name of, and offered conversation about our travels thus far and other things we’d missed out on since we saw each other last.

After a while of talking the four of us decided to switch the placement of the cars so that Stefanie could leave in the morning. Quickly after this the two went to bed and we moved into our rooms, me on the bed and Isaac on the couch, to eventually depart to sleep.

 

Interesting Observations:

We seem to spend an awful lot of time worrying about this blog, and a lot of time writing it. I’m sorry but as important as you various readers are I think I prioritize the activities of the trip itself. I’m thinking that I (not sure about Isaac) will spend less time worrying about this. I’ll still write them, and they’ll still be plenty full of detail but I’m not going to worry about them. I would rather worry about the trip.

You were expecting a couple more observations weren’t you? Well then you weren’t reading the above statement very closely. I can’t think of anything else interesting so only one for tonight … well now two.